"Those are motion lines," he replies.
Her pacifier has two motion lines, the only sign of movement in the stamps.
Tan completely eschews motion lines, sound effects and any other comics storytelling devices that would not be found in photographs.
Mignola creates an experience of stillness by avoiding the traditional motion lines (and other cues to motion) that many comic artists use.
With motion lines, shifting tones indicating multiple lanes of traffic, and splotchy puffs of exhaust, Bates's image of youthful Little Truck caught in his first solo traffic jam is imbued with a real sense of anxiety.
Uefa's analysis graphics depict him as a static blob, but really Milner's blob should be blurred with motion lines, reflecting an approach that basically involves embarking on a series of unrelenting sprints from box to box, like a man very stubbornly doing lengths of a swimming pool while a water polo match goes on all around him.
But if late de Kooning and Jackson Pollock, in full cry at the Museum of Modern Art, come to mind here, so do Walt Disney and Warner Brothers, specifically the exclamatory motion lines generated by Bugs Bunny, Sylvester and the Sorcerer's Apprentice, who could easily have just abruptly exited any of these paintings.
In the next panel, the retinal straightens out, with motion lines and a sound effect, "ding".
Cartooning techniques such as motion lines and abstract symbols are often employed.
