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Scorpion451
(Edited uphill both ways)
Leporidae
Since: Mar, 2016
2020-11-16 21:53:25
Painting the Medium reads "Please note: This trope is not 'Character interacts with the pages of the book/panels of the comic/film camera/suitable alternative for their story'—that trope is Medium Awareness" in the last paragraph of the description.
So Medium Awareness it is.
FurAndStone
Since: Jan, 2015

Do we have a trope that covers Breaking the Fourth Wall instances of characters in illustrated works interacting with the paper of the page they're drawn/ printed on? Like tearing off a corner, or crawling through a hole in the paper to reach the next page. Frame Break doesn't quite cover what I'm looking for, and Medium Awareness seems too broad.
(Specifically: I've encountered an example of an illuminated manuscript from the 15th century where an illustrator drew the front half of a small dog on page 469, and the back half of the dog on page 470. The dog is drawn as if it's crawling through a tear in the paper.)