2. Stories and Storytelling in the Era of Graphic Narrative

Abstract

There are countless forms of narrative in the world. First of all, there is a prodigious variety of genres, each of which branches out into a variety of media, as if all substances could be relied upon to accommodate man’s stories. [...] Moreover, in this inf inite variety of forms, it is present at all times, in all places, in all societies [...] there is not, there has never been anywhere, any people without narrative. (1975, 237)