Silent comics

They make use of little or no dialogue, speech balloons or captions written underneath the images.

Silent comics have the advantage of being easily understandable to people - like children - who are slow readers.

The genre is also universally popular since translation is not required, lacking the usual language barriers.

Sergio Aragonés, a famous artist in the field, once said in a 1991 interview with Comics Journal: "What happens is like a supersimplification.

Some famous silent-comics artists are Sergio Aragonés,[1] Guy Bara,[2] Chaval,[3] Henning Dahl Mikkelsen,[4] Adolf Oberländer,[5] Wil Raymakers,[6] Otto Soglow,[7] Gluyas Williams[8] and Jim Woodring.