The study discusses some aspects of a verbal part of the graphic stories about Makar the Fierce, as a
type of a creolized text, written by N. Oleynikov and published in the Leningrad children’s magazine
“Yozh” (‘The Hedgehog’) in 1929‒1931. The article shows that graphic stories as a polycode genre
demonstrate special type of visual and verbal coordination so that the text of a graphic story depends on
its visual part and performs structural and compensatory functions. The text makes it possible to identify
the beginning and the end of the story, to expand the temporal and geographic boundaries of the plot using temporal localized and non-localized predicates (usual and repeated actions). The text also helps to
make the plot constituent and rhythmic, and to create the entire image of a character (because of unmistakable references and a cinematic trick of voice-over with the help of onomatopoeic words). Moreover,
the narrative structure of graphic stories for younger children has something in common with a representative and iconic type of discourse but finds more lexical and syntax complexity so that it would correspond to the children’s communicative ability and, at the same time, improve their communicative competence.