Difference and connection between comic strips, illustrations and picture books

Lienhuanhua: here is mainly defined by Chinese Lianhuanhua. Generally speaking, a comic book is generally an illustration with a paragraph of 100 words or less for a page, the content of the picture shows the content of the text, the content of the text to a certain extent to supplement the content of the picture, the weight of the picture and the text is half and half. In the later stage of the creation of comic strips, there is a similar modern story comics format creation, but the original intention of this format, mostly to adapt to the 16k size of the format of the newspaper and magazines and change, and not for the optimization of the narrative considerations. Comic strips are usually objective point-of-view narratives (third-person narratives, and many in Europe and the United States are first-person narratives, but they are mostly presented as voice-over narration), and seldom deal with the psychology of the characters. Because of this form of comic strips, resulting in a small amount of his content, basically can only be simple and clear to tell a thing, and can not do to describe the complexity of the emotions and portray the rich characters, as well as lead the reader's emotions.

Picture books: picture books usually picture occupies a more important position, the text to supplement the main, picture books because there is no strict requirements on the style of painting, so more inclusive, from the complex drawings such as a few meters to the simple drawings such as Naoko Takagi can be, but usually do not choose to write a realistic type of painting style. Picture books in general, although they also tell stories, but it is not mandatory to have a story structure and storytelling, and the content is often paragraph and fable based. Picture books themselves are more inclined to show mood and atmosphere. Compared to the other two, the format of picture books is not strictly required, and reading them is more relaxed.

Story comics: Different from the usual single-panel "satirical comics" (such as current affairs) and "literati comics" (such as Feng Zikai), nowadays comics by default refer to Japanese comics as the representative of the storytelling-based manga (also used in China). The default term "manga" nowadays refers to Japanese manga, which focuses on storytelling (the term "serial manga" has also been used in China).

Story manga, as its name implies, is mainly about storytelling, and formally uses a continuous grid layout with internal logic, fully mobilizing all the means available on paper, such as dialogue bubbles, speed lines, onomatopoeia, white space, sweat drops, and other proprietary symbolic language, to vividly narrate the story and manipulate the reader's emotions. In terms of volume of content, it is on the same level as other forms of cultural work such as novels and movies.