Two classes ago while we were talking about Little Nemo, we touched on how the topic of narration/description by way of narration. In the first few comics of Little Nemo, nearly every panel had text written under it describing what would be going on in that certain panel (or the story as a whole if text got cut off.) I brought up one of the differences in narration for Manga and Traditional American comics, that being that Manga typically doesn't have too much of it.

From what I've read, Manga is often very explosive, filled with action, and incredibly detailed (as detailed as a black and white picture can get, anyway.) This isn't to say that traditional American comics are all drawn carelessly, all we need to look at to reassure us of that is, in fact, Little Nemo. The comic in which the zoom-in of the gigantic elephant is drawn is rendered with amazing detail: http://www.comicstriplibrary.org/images/comics/Little%20Nemo/hs_Little%20Nemo%20-%201906-09-23.jpg.

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