Beyond the Shadow of Z: Non-Linear Reading and Experimental Approaches to Comics

The aim of this study is to broaden the field investigation empirical research on reading comics by including aspects related narrative rhythm and non-linear paths, while associating them with a genre, in case, Franco-Belgian humorous comic strip. On basis corpus, one hand we are interested retrograde operations induced visual gags page, other hand, investigate impact sequences that call “chronophotographic”, latter having received little attention until our study.