As an integral dynamic, documentary comics faces a productive contradiction: authors both seek to immerse their readers in gripping stories and draw attention to the constructedness of the reported events. Furthermore, storytelling is especially persuasive because of its lifelike rendering of events, which makes them emotionally relatable. Moreover, different narrative levels frame each other: similar to a detective story, many documentary graphic narratives include a framing narrative that outlines the reporter’s investigation, and into which witness accounts are embedded to tell the story of a past crisis. Each narrative discourse frames the represented events through particular representational choices. This chapter discusses narrative framing strategies in the selected works: for instance, how stories are told and contextualized, for instance, through comments and/or contradicting accounts, shapes the comprehension of the represented events. Storytelling is a central concern of documentary graphic narratives.
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