Ted Talks-COMM 203

Richard Masoner-http://www.flickr.com/photos/bike/2712178265/

When I watched Scott McCloud on Ted Talks, he talks about looking at comics in a different way. The part that made an impact is the vision of the comics. He explains how the comic is framed with each box and how its catches our eyes. The expression each box gives to the reader and how it is analyze. Comics are just good stories and very direct to what the author wants the readers to get out of the comics. I never really thought how the comics are designed as a visual tool.


Scott mentions different ways the stories are told in the patterns. Some examples would be lines of diagonal, vertical, horizontal and so on. One thing that impressed me was how he dated back to the ancient times where stories were told on potteries and on walls in temples. It didn't cross my mind that people already had developed a way to make a visual statement to people. We had storytellers before we had thought of it, haha. The bottom line is that the visual concept of comics is something not easy to do. It is hard to make something that tells the story in a short period of time and keeps our attention. Comics do give us different ways to view the world in a visual delight and not just what TV gives us.

The visual is such a sight that all we can do is make more different ways of showing the world, for me at least.