Research on the visual narrative that has as its object of study the Picturebook. The proposal is an analysis based on the hypothesis of a proximity between the Illustration and the Performing Arts. The choice of Picturebook has a counterpoint in the area of Performing Arts, the Clown Mime. This choice was made because of the similar characteristics between the two objects: the text represented by the absence of verbal language. This approach involves analyzing the picture book from the perspective of textual absence as an alternative to the tradition of critical and theory of narrative that privileges the verbal text.