By stripping down an image to its essential meaning, an artist can amplify that meaning in a way that realistic art can't.
Storytellers in all media know that a sure indicator of audience involvement is the degree to which the audience identifies with a story's characters.
Modern art: no matter how dissimilar one image may be to another, there is a kind of alchemy at work in the space between the images which can help us find meaning or resonance in even the most jarring of combinations. Such transitions may not make "sense" in any traditional way, but still a relationship of some sort will inevitably develop. By creating a sequences of disparate images, we are endowing them with a single overriding identity, and forcing the viewer to consider them as a whole.
Traditional western art and literature don't wander much. On the whole, we're pretty much a goal-oriented culture. But in the East, there's a rich tradition of cyclical and labyrinthine works of art. Japanese comics may be heirs to this tradition, in the way they so often emphasize being there over getting there.
- Scott Mccloud
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