What's the difference between a comic and a picture book?

Formatting.

It's not a hard line, but I'd say the general difference is that in a comic sequential images and sometimes text are meant to work together to create a story that wouldn't be understood with just one or the other, whereas in picture books the illustrations are meant to support the text. Most picture books can be read and understood without the illustrations.

They don't use the "Marvel method"

>>88696340
Dat nigga shiny af

>>88696340
Personally i think the only distinction is a picture book has one image per page, while comics have panels---on average, anyways.

And I know this isn't an agreed upon definition, but I see 'graphic novels' as comics with a novel-like pacing and cohesion (chapters, reads like a book but has images) vs the serialized format of comics (cliffhangers, feels more like a tv show)

>>88696461
As shiny as this marine vertebrate?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93lrosBEW-Q

>>88696340
Word Balloons and Panels

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the seahorse in the cartoon was hot as fuck

No text bubbles.

>>88696340
Paneling mostly. Picture books use illustrations which take up a single page at a time.

>>88696808
>vertebrate

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>>88696340

Gritty michael bay rainbow fish movie when?

>>88696340

Picture books are more engaging.

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>>88697064
That's disturbingly adorable...

>>88697765
>It has to brutally rip off its scales each time it gives one away
>End of the movie is it bleeding out to death after giving away its final scale
>Explodes

A picture book tells a story through words, and it happens to have images. A comic tells a story through images, and it happens to have words. Sometimes.

>>88696340
picture book stories make sense

>>88696421
pander to people who don't buy your products then shit on the people who have in the past?

>>88696340

comics generally don't have prose except sometimes they do

>>88696388

/thread. this dude nailed it

>>88698566
I woke up my cats with the amount of laughter I just had.

>>88698566
>the scales it gave away also explode into mountain dew advertisements

>>88696340
Holy fuck I remember that book.

None.

Comics are picture books.

We're all a bunch of fucking babies and we love it.

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this is my favourite picture book

>>88701614
Me too, my mom used to read me that. I think I still got it somewhere.

>>88697765
>>88698566


no

>>88696340
Totem Wishiwashi fucked my shit up.

>>88698809

No you filthy casual

The Marvel method is a writing style created by Stan Lee, in which the artist draws panels first and then the writer adds narration and dialogue

>Pfister

>>88703461
Except Lee made them write the dialogue too, he just script doctored it after and took the writing credit.