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An online library and meronomy of visual-narrative devices that are used in the medium of comics and other sequential art.

Rhythm Comics have visual rhythm and language-based rhythm. Visual rhythm guides aesthetic harmony and flow. Language-based rhythm guides pacing and expectation. Both are capable of producing evocation as an outcome. Evocation The act of recalling or creating emotional or sensual effects using panel arrangement, mark-making and colour. Contraction A successive sequence of panels or gutters that contract in size, to quicken pacing or evoke a specific effect. Expansion A successive sequence of panels or gutters that expand in size, to slow down pacing or evoke a specific effect. Under…

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