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This idea of “analytical montage” (see previous post) is, as I see it, a variation on McCloud’s aspect-to-aspect transitions. In describing this concept it works better to think of it as a narrative method than a simple matter of panel transitions. This style of narration in comics is becoming more and more prominent as manga [...]

The principle technique of storytelling is “analytical montage” (Groensteen L’Univers des Mangas (1991)) in which the sequencing of plates [panels] is very resourceful in comparison with a rather constrained Euro-American montage and page layout. In manga, there is no textual interference. Analytical montage entails the “scattering” of a story event over different frames. A scene [...]

Exit (volume 1) by Nabiel Kanan. Caliber Comics, 1996. Out of Print. A long time ago, I used to go to this bookstore in a nearby town that had an extensive magazine collection, bigger than I’d ever seen (which may not say much as this was in the suburbs and before places like Borders were [...]

The Mother’s Mouth by Dash Shaw. Alternative Comics, 2006. 128p., $12.95. Dash Shaw’s previous book Goddess Head was an ambitious and inconsistent collection of formal experiments that were often too oblique to make much sense. The Mother’s Mouth is a graphic novel that tells a rather straightforward narrative in a rich, experimental montage of comics [...]