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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/9488
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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/a/9488
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- Joe Sacco, an excellent comic artist (printed, not web), does sometimes do “illustrated narrative” comics, where there’s quite a bit of writing in narrative form, not dialogue, but the illustration still dominates (so it’s still a comic, not an illustrated novel).

- You have to get to the fourth page of [Gunnerkrigg Court](http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1) before you see any dialogue. Before then, it’s all first-person narration.

- [Khaos Komix](http://www.khaoskomix.com/komix/steves-story-cover) has quite a lot of first-person narration, nicely mixed with dialogue. Tab’s latest venture, [Shades of A](http://www.discordcomics.com/shades-cover/), has a similar structure, but it’s laid out visually differently, as printed text between panels (page 6 is a particularly nice example). I’ve not seen that style used elsewhere.

- [Girl Genius](http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20021104) opens with a storyteller character, who narrates the next page, but after that we never hear from him again. (Actually, he does turn up as a character in the story, many months later, but there isn’t any more narration.)

So, there is more than one way to write a comic. A comic with _no_ dialogue would certainly be unusual, and I can’t think of an example, but it would be one way to go about it.

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