Comic strips: A unique way to write
I feel very strongly and negatively towards people who do not enjoy reading comics. Having said that, yes, people have different tastes and opinions. But, I feel not enough people appreciate this unique form of writing.
Be it Iron Man or Spider Man, Superman, or Batman, or Wonder Woman, or Haley Quinn, all these fan favorites have their origin in comic books. It is so interesting to think how these complex characters came into existence through periodical issues of comic strips.
Comic strips mostly focus on the illustrations with a few lines to spare for each of those illustrations. The beauty lies in the ability of the words to speak for the pictures and vice versa. Visual poetry or Visual writing is a concept, is very prominent in these comics. You do not have to waste words to mention that your character is angry, it is very evident from the image.
Comic books have also successfully extended storylines, plotlines, added new ones, subtracted the unsuccessful ones, and maintained a continuity without losing its truest essence.
I started with superhero comic books as examples, however, one of the foremost I read was Tintin and Feluda. As a child, reading comics was way easier than novels. And that is where the efficiency of this form of writing comes from. Comics are attention grabbing, exciting, with adventurous storylines and say a lot with very few words. Looking at pictures is hardly taxing. So, you actually consume the content more than you think you do. You get invested and also learn from it.
So, if you are a content writer seeking for new ways to make your content palatable, why not try a comic strip? After all, memes are a lesser version of it anyway, right?
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