Narrative
In Comics

There are many different ways to understand narrative. A great way to tell a story is to do so visually. Often times, effective design, illustrations, or pictures, need few or seldomely no actual words to tell a story. A good example of this are comics; they have great narrative by telling a short story mostly by pictures and few words.

The first frame shows a man who is confused, on the ground, and in an unknown place. The second frame shows that he is standing upright and there is a side view of his face shown. The third frame shows a close up of the character's face in outrage. And then in the last frame, you see the man's full figure running towards a house.  

Without even reading the actual words of the story, one can grasp an underlying concept of what is going on in the comic. Furthermore, the positioning of the man within the frames adds a great angle of the story.

For example, in the third frame, the man's look of outrage would not be nearly as effective if it showed him further away as in frame four or one. Because all the attention is focused on his extremely expressive face, there is effective narrative.  

Comics are just one of many ways in which the concept of narrative is conveyed through pictures, angles, and story telling through design. You can see it in professional comics such as Spiderman and Garfield, or in armature comics such as Joshua Pettigrew's. When one takes into account text and pictures of a comic, it then becomes clear how the experience as a whole demonstrates effective narrative.