Graphic storytelling and visual narrative : principles and practices from the legendary cartoonist / Will Eisner.

Originally published in 1996 with the title: Graphic storytelling.

Includes bibliographical references.

INTRODUCTION Comics as a Medium --1. THE STORY OF STORYTELLING --2. WHAT IS A STORY; The Function of a Story. --3. TELLING A STORY; Stories Told with Print; Stories Told with Imagery. --4. IMAGES AS NARRATIVE TOOLS; Stereotypical Images; Symbolism. --5. ALL KINDS OF STORIES; Telling Stories to Instruct; Telling a How-To Story; Telling the "Plotless" Story; Telling the Illustrated Story; Telling the Symbolic Story; Telling the Slice-of-Life Story; Telling A Life Story. --6. THE READER; Control of the Reader; Surprise, Shock and Reader Retention; Dialogue: The Reader as Actor; Reader vs. Dialogue; Dialogue vs. Image; Dialogue vs. Action; Lettering Dialogue; Story Momentum. --7. READER INFLUENCES; Reading Rhythm; The Influence of Film on Reading Comics; Film Sequence; Comics Sequence; How Comics Influence Film; National Influences. --8. IDEAS; What If? Let Me Tell You What Happened To; Next My Hero Is Thrown into the Following Adventure; Did You Hear the One About. --9. THE WRITING PROCESS; Writer vs. Graphic Translator; Afterword on Writing. --10. STORYTELLERS; The Short Short Plot; The One-Page Story; The Illustrator-Storyteller; The Totally Graphic Story. --11. ARTISTIC STYLE AND STORYTELLING; The Voice of The Storyteller; And the Storyteller Himself; The Marketplace; And, Finally, The Future. 12. COMICS AND THE INTERNET; The Infinite Canvas; FURTHER INFORMATION ON WEBCOMICS; OBSERVATIONS ON STORY; Joseph Campbell; Roger D. Abrahams; Ladislas Segy; E.H. Gombrich; Further Reading(pages 166); SCHOOLS OFFERING COURSES IN COMICS CREATION.