title: Metacomic
text: # Metacomic
  
  Metacomic is a metafictional comics style in which the characters realize that they are living in a comic. In a metacomic, the characters are able to take advantage of the comic's structure to progress in the storyline. In brief, a metacomic is a comic about a comic.
  
  ## Elements
  
  * Using the comic structure as an advantage (making the characters travel across comic panels, interact with speech balloons and other panels, or using the characters' speech as a "real", solid object).
  * Drawing the author themselves into the comic to act as a character and interact with other characters.
  * Using direct help from the author (the author's "hand" might appear to the comic and draw a helpful object, delete enemies with an eraser, or touch/move the characters).
  
  ## Examples
  
  * Krazy Kat by George Herriman
  * L'Origine [fr] by Marc-Antoine Mathieu [fr]
  * Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
  * Opus by Satoshi Kon
  * Deadpool in Marvel Comics
  * The author of and characters from the webcomic Sinfest
  * The creators of the graphic novel Logicomix
  * Imbattable by Pascal Jousselin
  * Gwenpool in Marvel Comics
  