Steen Ledet Christiansen\'s Storytelling in Kabuki explores the series created by David Mack--a slow, recursive narrative that focuses on the death of Kabuki and her past.
By exploring Spatial form, Christiansen illuminates and gives a critical framework to a different and underexamined aspect of comics..
Kabuki \'s unique compositional layering allows Christiansen to provide a clear example of how Comics work while also expanding on critical vocabulary, especially in terms of Spatial poetics.
Because Kabuki employs a complex layering of focalizations, diegetic levels, and metafictional self-reflectivity that is rare in mainstream American comics, it utilizes a narrative Poetics that focuses on constant repeating, restating, and returning to the same events.
To understand Kabuki , it is crucial to explore the visual styles, as well as the use of visual and Spatial rhymes and mixed media forms.
Christiansen analyzes the visual design of the series, a heterogeneous collection of styles depending on the story.
Kabuki tells a story that can only exist via comics.
The flexibility of comics\' approach to chronology, space, focalization, narrative, and fictionality enabled Mack to produce an unusual experience.
Most of the series explores different perspectives on the same event and adds background to Kabuki\'s past, usually through surreal sequences, dreams, and near-death experiences.
The series ran from 1994 to 2004 in a variety of miniseries, one-shots, and spin-offs, rather than following a conventional American monthly release schedule.
Steen Ledet Christiansen\'s Storytelling in Kabuki explores the series created by David Mack--a slow, recursive narrative that focuses on the death of Kabuki and her past
