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Figure 25 Dog, Winterbach Rewerie pI (reduced)
A fragment of the first frame is repeated, reversed, in the last frame, enclosing the comic
as the opening and closing sentences of an argument enclose the argument [figs 26,27].
The frames are placed in series like sentences in a paragraph. In this comic visual
communication mimics the structure of verbal language, and becomes a different
language. Visually the comic functions and is arranged and is read the same way as
wriiten text is; visual replaces verbal explicitly, not implicitly as it does in a traditional
narrative comic. Without creating a separate reality, this comic still exists between the
frames, behind the page, in the composite statement that is generated, not in the frames
themselves. It lies in the motion of reading and the act of connecting the frames into a
seamless whole.
Figure 26 Dog, Winterbach Rewerie pI (reduced) 121