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Very intriguing comics from artist Yan Cong…
Mainstream Japanese manga is often too “movie-like” in with its storyline and visual perspective. The montages are too quick and it makes you rush your reading. You get the feeling you are always trying to catch up.
However, comics can give readers other types of experiences – they can make you meditate over one page, they can be read in a slow, unhurried manner, and they can make you feel that you have time to stop and appreciate the characters in the story. Overall, I want to say that there are many ways to draw and many ways to control the rhythm of a story – we should give readers all these choices.
