"It's a Magical World": The Page in Comics and Medieval Manuscripts.

This essay examines what it is about comics and illustrated books that opens up areas of imagination and memory that would be inaccessible through words or single pictures alone. The author takes a look at medieval book artists and contemporary cartoonists who make use of the page to allow readers boundary-free thinking. The author uses the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes and a sheet of parchment illustrating the Old French tale "Parise la Duchesse." The essay also discusses the use of empty space in illustration to emphasize the theme of loss and recovery, the panel layout of comics, and the Luttrell Psalter, an illuminated manuscript.