Place the HTML code for one imagemap within each table cell. When you are at the end of the Toon, close the table. This is being written in 1998. I think that the current average user's bandwidth calls for quiet, static, flat WebToon images. Plain images are neither too much nor too little to download.
Animation is a cornerstone of modern cartoons.
For the time being, quiet, static, flat WebToon images get the job done. Make a storyboard summarizing your document. Create digital images of people talking. Copy, save, pick, crop the images. Enhance the images in Photoshop or other image processing software.