This engraved illustration to a page in Edward Young's Night Thoughts by William Blake from his own watercolor design demonstrates pictorial drama, while the thirty-line text shows approximately how long a one-page tiny story could be. Blake reacted to the poem. We, on the other hand, could ignore it and react to the imagery as inspiration for a story. As I said in my last post Kathleen Jennings has a good post on formats for tiny illustrated stories.
So to add to Jennings' list of possibilities:
- an illustrated page with text block
- a diagram
- a picture postcard
- haiku series in folds of a fan
- illustrated musical composition
- scrapbook page
- Christmas/Krampus cracker insert
- jigsaw puzzle