Even with the low number of panels, like #3 having only four panels compared with the first two strips, astonishing non-verbal continuities are created!
I know of no other comic strip that consistently delivers non-verbal signifiers strip after strip after strip. The artist was a master of non-verbal information.
For me, the semiotics of the strips approach the status of the hieroglyphic forms of language.
Even with the low number of panels, like #3 having only four panels compared with the first two strips, astonishing non-verbal continuities are created!
I know of no other comic strip that consistently delivers non-verbal signifiers strip after strip after strip. The artist was a master of non-verbal information.
For me, the semiotics of the strips approach the status of the hieroglyphic forms of language.