Please return now to your answers to the previous questions before going on to the next lesson:

- How would you define a comic in one sentence?

- What are the absolutely necessary features of a comic? What is the difference between a comic and an illustrated book; between a comic and a photo story?

- When reading a comic, what feelings arise within you?

After reading literature focused on digital comics and discovering Phallaina, how would you define a digital comic? Is it still a comic? What are the decisive aspects that declare the emergence of a new form of expression?

... do not worry: you won't find a manual with exact answers to these questions. All scholars are trying to proceed into the unknown digital jungle and they are looking to do it with you. Becoming aware of these shifts is necessary and so is their critical analysis with knowledge of the historical background.