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The stories can be told through photos, sketches, diagrams, flipbooks, colour and
inventive typography.
The first types of comics that existed started when printing presses were
invented.
Famous early examples of text-image experiments include Laurence Sternes
elliptical Tristram Shandy (1767) and William Blakes self-illustrated poems in
Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794).
Graphic devices were limited, therefore they became popular the sixteenth
century, when communication media changed dramatically, such as the
invention of the printing press.
There are six main ways that visuals in hybrid texts challenge the conventions,
these are; exaggeration, alteration, repetition, deletion, combination and the
adoption of conventions from other forms.
Hartmut Stockl thinks that the linguistic reflection on typology would have no use
to creative writers twenty years ago, it used to be something that happened
mostly after a book was written, but now most books are published with
illustrations, or people seem to be more commonly publishing their own work
using the internet or in eBooks.