A Comparison between Narrative and Interactive Systems Based on the Relationship between Picture and Writing in Willy the Wimp and The Boxer Picture Books

The Picture book is an artistic–literary work utilising both picture and writing systems to communicate. Expressive tricks from both language systems are veryimportant. The interactions between the two can form a narrative in a layer superior to each in the picture books. Therefore, the study of such expressive tricks in the Willy the Wimp and Boxer picture books are in the agenda here. It is intended to find out how expressive tricks generate narrative and interactive orders. To do so, semiotic, theories of ‘conjunctionand disjunction’ or ‘classic narrative’, as well as ‘co-presence’ systems have been used. The paper concludes that any trick is presentable by the author, provided it is expressed as an interactive structure or approach for the subject.