Word and picture combinations
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Word and picture combinations are relationships discussed in Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics. He defines seven distinct categories of combinations of words and pictures:
1. Word specific, where "pictures illustrate, but don't significantly add to a largely complete text."
2. Picture specific, where "words do little more than add a soundtrack to a visually told sequence."
3. duo-specific, where "both words and pictures send essentially the same message."
4. Additive, where "words amplify and elaborate on an image or vice versa."
5. Parallel, where "words and pictures seem to follow very different courses-- without intersecting."
6. Montage, where "words are treated as integral parts of the picture."
7. Interdependent, where "words and pictures go hand in hand to convey an idea that neither could convey alone."
