To follow a hero’s journey through a novel, you’ll need to read a lot of pages. Even “Bonehead,” a relatively brief short story, includes more than two thousand words. Not all literature depends entirely on the power of words, though. Graphic novels, for instance, often rely on pictures more than words to tell a story. So do comic strips, movies, and animated cartoons.

Study the images on the slides below. Together, they tell a story about Pepper, a young witch, and her cat Carrot. The story is a single episode from a much longer web comic titled Pepper & Carrot, created by David Revoy. Notice how many words appear in this story.

_{Created by David Revoy, translated by Alex Gryson (Creative Commons license 4.0)}

_{Created by David Revoy, translated by Alex Gryson (Creative Commons license 4.0)}

_{Created by David Revoy, translated by Alex Gryson (Creative Commons license 4.0)}

_{Created by David Revoy, translated by Alex Gryson (Creative Commons license 4.0)}

_{Created by David Revoy, translated by Alex Gryson (Creative Commons license 4.0)}

Even though this story does not rely on words to tell what happened, you were probably able to figure it out simply by studying the pictures.