How Animation and Comics Redefine Our Sense of Time

When people talk about storytelling, time is often treated as something fixed and measurable — minutes passing, scenes unfolding in order, events moving forward. But in animation and comics, time behaves very differently. It stretches, folds, pauses, and sometimes disappears altogether. Rather than following a clock, these mediums invite audiences to feel time through visual rhythm and narrative pacing. Unlike […]