Something Mxy said.....
Uncle Mxy wrote:If you really want to pay close attention, you film the actual comic book art, then crudely animate around it.

This would have been too far off-topic, but in the comics I was reading the other day, the spirit of animation is alive and well, from what I can tell. This scene is a good example:

You could definitely animate around the panels in these old Gottfredson comics; or, to turn it around, they are like watching a cartoon with the "inbetween panels" removed.
There are other types of comics with this quality. They are very fast-moving and fun to read, even involving simple little stories like Mickey Mouse vs. Pegleg Pete.