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Q. What does Baetons means by "monstration", "graphiation", and "graphiateur"?

This question was a bit complicated for me to understand the meaning of those three words, and I am still not sure if I understood them as what they are and how Baetons (2001) states.

According to Baetens (2001), the distinction between different types of narrator and comic graphic artist, Marion proposes to change the names to “graphiation” and “graphiateur” for audiences (readers).

Graphiation is graphic and stories of the comic (indeed comic is a visual story), and apparent persistence of the features of the story, because of the images of the text. In additional, “graphiation” is powerful tool in a sketch stage.

Graphiateur is responsible for drawing pictures and texts in the comics not responsible to sign the comic end of its work.

Monstration is into the story and the film, which cannot be automatically moved to comic. “Monration” is the implicit in the comic. Therefore the process of “monstration” remains implicit. Andre Gaudreault was the first person used the term monstration while storytelling in various films. Monstration is different modes of storytelling to convey. Monstration is the events described in the film as a director tells a story. A story that could or (perhaps) is inspired by the film itself, and story is text itself.

References:

Baetens, J. (2001). Revealing Graphic Traces: a new theory of graphic enunciation. In Varnum, R & Gibbsons, C. (Eds.), The Language of Comics: word and image (pp. 145-155). Jackson: U press of missippi.