Illustration and Text

Illustration

Illustration noun - Something that visually explains or decorates a text.

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Text and illustration are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Text" instead a noun "Illustration".

Text noun - A book used for instruction in a subject.

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Illustration and text are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Illustration" instead a noun "Text".

Nearby Word: textual

full	full illustration	full text
special	special illustration	special text
particular	particular illustration	particular text
similar	similar illustration	similar text
Other adjectives: short, complete, original, simple, small, actual, little, key, colored, classic, official, ending.

Some don't even make the in-character Q&A into a comic, leaving it as plain text instead, or with just a small illustration.

Source: Fourth-Wall Mail Slot
The Naruto CCG has flavor text below the illustration for each card, oftentimes a quote from the show.

Source: Flavor Text
One issue of Howard the Duck was 22 pages of text-with-an-illustration of Steve Gerber apologizing for not having a fully-formed comic ready for publication that month.

Source: Wall of Text

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