Recurring Visual Motifs and Symbolism with reference to the Novel “Watchmen” by Alan Moore

Abstract

A Graphic Novel is basically the idea of taking a story from another medium, like a novel, a movie or even a real life event and turning it into comics. The focusison how the visual language can highlight parts of the original that words alone can’t. It is a long form comic that can be about any subject your heart desires. The term also encompasses comic short story anthologies and in some cases bound collections of Previously published comic book series. The most literary devices frequently featured in graphic novels include point of view, flashbacks, foreshadowing and metaphor. “Watchmen” by Alan Moore is the original Graphic novel that proved the complexity and literary merit of the comies medium. The artists Dave Gibbons and John Higgins and writer Alan Moore Strategically repeat specific images that become laden with meaning throughout the narrative. The visual language is as dense and layered as the text itself.