Text comics

Histoire de Monsieur Cryptogame (1830) by Rodolphe Töpffer, an early example of a text comic. Notice the text underneath the images

Text comics or a text comic is a form of comics where the stories are told in captions below the images and without the use of speech balloons. It is the oldest form of comics and was especially dominant in European comics from the 19th century[1] until the 1950s, after which it gradually lost popularity in favor of comics with speech balloons.

  1. ^ "Image and Narrative – Article". Imageandnarrative.be. Retrieved 18 November 2015.

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