Pantomime comics

Pantomime comics or a silent comic are comics which are delivered in mime. They make use of little to no dialogue, speech balloons or captions written underneath the images. Instead the stories or gags are told entirely through pictures.[1]

Definition

Pantomime comics have the advantage of being easily understandable to people - like children - who are slow readers. The genre is also universally popular since translation is not required, lacking the usual language barriers. Sergio Aragonés, a famous artist in the field, once said in a 1991 interview with Comics Journal: "What happens is like a supersimplification. “Something you can say with words, you have to eliminate all the words until it can be told in a little story without words. You just think a little longer. But it becomes rewarding in the end because everybody can understand your cartoons no matter what your nationality. And that, to me, has been always a big thing—to do cartoons that everybody can understand, every age, every nationality. It is different. It’s like in the theater. You have regular theater, and you have pantomime, like Marcel Marceau or Alejandro Jodorowsky. And I apply that to cartooning and it works.".[2] Pantomime comics tend to be popular in the gag-a-day comics genre, where they typically consist of just three or four images per episode. But some graphic novels with longer narratives also make use of pantomime (Wordless novels). This allows for a more visual experience, where the actual meaning of the events is left to the readers' own interpretation. Some famous pantomime comics artists are Sergio Aragonés,[3] Guy Bara,[4] Chaval,[5] Henning Dahl Mikkelsen,[6] Adolf Oberländer,[7] Wil Raymakers,[8] Otto Soglow,[9] Gluyas Williams [10] and Jim Woodring.[11]

List of well-known pantomime comics

Argentina

Australia

Belgium

Canada

China

Cuba
  • Geste Hypergraphique by Roberto Altmann, a comic book with abstract imagery, a surreal plot and symbols and freeform interpunction. While there are speech balloons it's unreadable gibberish, making it somewhat of a pantomime comic.[47]

Denmark

Finland

France
  • Arzach by Moebius.[57]
  • L'Enclos by Blexbolex.[58]
  • Match by Grégory Panaccione
  • Malabar, the mascot of chewing gum brand Malabar, whose adventures were told in pantomime comics. The first artist to draw the series was Jean-René Le Moing.[59]
  • Mistouflet by Aldé.[60]
  • Monsieur Mouche by Rab.[61]
  • La Mouche by Lewis Trondheim.[62]
  • Un océan d'amour by Grégory Panaccione and Wilfrid Lupano.
  • Le Pantin by Michel Alzéal.[63]
  • Passages by Thibault Poursin.[64]
  • Petit Père Noël by Thierry Robin and Lewis Trondheim.[65]
  • Le Petit President by J. Lap.[66]
  • Pervers Pépère by Marcel Gotlib.[67]
  • Professeur Nimbus by André Daix.[68]
  • Riri by Maurice Chénechot.[69]
  • Les Souris by Pierre Clément.[70]
  • La Théorie du Chaos by Pierre Schelle.[71]

Germany

Hungary
A Francia Bonne Álma, by Nándor Honti, from Hungarian humor magazine Fidibusz, 1911.
  • Jucika by Pál Pusztai.[83]
  • Séta Álomországban by Bit (a.k.a. Nándor Honti). One particular episode, A Francia Bonne Álma (lit. 'The French Nurse's Dream' – lit. 'The French Nanny's Dream'), took the interest of famous psychologists Sándor Ferenczi and Sigmund Freud.[84]

Italy

Japan

Mexico
  • Pedrito by William de la Torre.[88]

Netherlands

Norway

Philippines
  • Beelzebub by Malang Santos.[102]
  • Chain Gang Charlie by Malang Santos.[103]
  • Kosmé the Cop [Retired] by Malang Santos.[104]
  • Malangs Menagerie by Malang Santos.[105]
  • Pocholo by Malang Santos.[106]

Poland

Spain
  • Cándído by José Luis Martin Mena, aka Mena.[110]
  • The work of OPS (pseudonym of Andrés Rábago).[111]

Sweden

Switzerland
  • Alberto by Daniel Bosshart.[122]
  • Dead End by Thomas Ott.[123]
  • Geteilter Traum by Daniel Bosshart.
  • Greetings from Hellville by Thomas Ott.
  • Max by Pericle Luigi Giovannetti.[124]
  • Tales of Error by Thomas Ott.

United Kingdom

United States

Yugoslavia
  • Ljuba Truba by Milorad Dobrić.[175]

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