I dig these “visual haikus” Montreal-based artist Ohara Hale made for Brain Pickings. They’re sort of like Kenneth Koch meets John Porcellino.
They also make me think of the cartoonist Seth’s proposition that Peanuts is a kind of visual haiku:
It seemed so clear that his four-panel setup was just like reading a haiku; it had a specific rhythm to how he set up the panels and the dialogue. Three beats: doot doot doot— followed by an infinitesimal pause, and then the final beat: doot. Anyone can recognize this when reading a Peanuts strip. These strips have that sameness of rhythm that haikus have— the haikus mostly ending with a nature reference separated off in the final line.
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