Research About New Comic’s Narrative Skills And Characteristics In Literary View

Comic is a branch of painting art, so far, it has three kinds of forms, such as ironically and humorously traditional comic, narrative and several cartoons, and experimentally exploratory cartoons. Herein, the most popular one is narrative and several cartoons, which represents the new development stage of contemporary comic, and is the totally different from traditional cartoons. It is called new comics. The distinct difference between the new and traditional comic is the narrative level. The new comic has a set of complete narrative mechanism, also shows the character of combining the time and space, and firstly become a style of narrative. The new comic expands the possibility of narrative through the continuity of pictures, which has the time continuity and space expansion. It is a comprehensive art founded on the intersection of time and space. Literature and movie narrative are just parts of the narrative. The research of narrative should consider the other expressions effects, such as the visual and image. Thus, from the perspective of narrative, or the literature view, it is meaningful to conduct the analysis and research on the narrative mechanism of new comic.The new comic has the possibility of narrative. Cartoon is composed of images, and has the intuitive, impressive characteristics, as well as the meaning expression. Human has a nature understanding of images, and the narrative methods are all images in the early era. It probably determines the narrative symbols of new comic. In the new comic, it has three narrative symbols, such as text, image, and drawing. The symbols in the new comic have various types, and also their meanings are specific. It not only can express the meaning, also has the pictograph function. Even the words are just a part of images; express the meaning from the changes of types and positions. Image symbols also are the most important component of new comic. The huge difference between the new comic and normal painting art is the combination of image and words, intersexuality. This kind of intersexuality not only represents the more reality of the artistic conception through the position changing of word symbols, also shows the confinement of word symbols to image. Meanwhile, it gives a mental direction of vision, further digs the thinking space, and forms the underlying meaning. The drawing symbols demonstrate the essential characteristic of new comic, which is the difference from other narrative symbols. The line, color and shade are all its material forms.Compared with the single page narrative comic, the new one has the separate spaces to display the coherent and orderly story, and it likes the certain scenes of movie. One separate space has a complete scene, it is a independent narrative. The narrative not only shows in the separate space, also are smoothly connected among the separate spaces. The former one is a design of scene, and the other is called clips. Those two things constitute the grammar of narrative in the new comic.The new comic has its own logics and skill. The story described usually contains a variety of surface morphology and has the common inner structure point with the same kind of comic. That is why the new comic needs to cater the favorite of reading, and try to find the reading motivation. The narrative theory is employed to analyze the story of new comic, the characters setting in the comic has its own skill and principle. The similar characters would be influence the same story structure. The new comic not only has the common phenomenon with the other comic, also constantly updates.The narrative style of new comic has the properties of postmodern color, deformation, multiculturalism, also they are the key words of new comic. As the narrative style of new era, the new comic has been starting to influence the habit of narrative. Furthermore, the research of new comic extends the field of narrative study, also stimulates the creative innovation of local new comic, and becomes a great tool for thinking about future and analyzing the popular phenomenon.