A Narrative Study Of Graphic Novels

Graphic novel is a new stage and new art form of comics.As a static narrative text of word-and-image form,it has the narrative characteristics of combining graphic narrative and text narrative,presenting a new narrative style under the guidance of vision.Graphic novel' s narrative is mainly graphic narrative,supplemented by text narrative.The relationship between graphic and text is the logic starting point of graphic novel narrative.The trend of independent narrative of images can be glimpsed in the art practice.The meaning gap between graphic and text is the place where narrative meanings are generated.The interaction between graphic and text and the development and evolution of the relationship between graphic and text continue to enrich the narrative meaning of graphic novel.The narrative of graphic novel express time through space,and the time of narrative is contained in space.The basic form of division not only constructs time,but also leads to the interruption and fragmentation of time,presenting the fragmented characteristics of time and breaking the linearity of traditional novels.Narrative is to construct the time and space of narrative in a way of spatial narrative.The layout of the space is the spatialization of narrative time,and the blank space in the space has both visual and narrative meanings.Graphic novel constructs narrative in a spatial manner,express time in space,and construct space in space.The narrative presents a posture of interaction between time and space,and the meaning of narrative is also constructed and generated in the interaction of time and space.As a cross-media narrative form,graphic novel means a new narrative discourse.Graphic novels present a characteristic of deformation and dissolution from the three levels of symbol,fiction,and aesthetic connotation,which contains the inherent characteristics of graphic novel narrative.Tension,and the externalization of this tension creates a narrative tension between literature and image.When viewing has become a new way of reading,new breakthroughs have been made in painting and literature itself.Graphic novel is the literary exploration of painting at the narrative level,as well as the new discourse of literary narrative in the image age.When narrative has become a way to communicate the world of literature and image,the literary narrative under the fusion of media also breaks through the traditional single characterization of words and has the expression of images.Graphic novel has become a new literary form.