Comic World

As I read more and more of Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud, it was interesting to see how some comics are made different to others. One fact that Scott wanted to emphasize was the idea of seeing a face. Our minds is such a great tool, that when we see two dots and a line the first thing we see is a face.I find that crazy that we can think of that so fast, but Scott refers to this as a way that we are a self-centered race. We see ourselves in so many inanimate objects and sometimes we don't even know about it. One example he uses is when we drive our cars, if somebody hits a car we would say "he hit me." Not that "his car hit my car," we take the role of the car being an extended part of our own body. Even the design of the car is a face, two headlights and a bumper. This is just one example of how we see faces in everything in our life.

Cool cover

Another part Scott talked about is the simplistic drawing of characters compared to the background. The example I will use is from Maus by Art Spiegelman. Most of the characters are mouses and very simple with two dots for eyes, a distinguish nose and we can fill out the rest the face. The background is still very simple but has more detail in them compared to the characters. I did like one use of framing in the story, when two of the characters were going to two different places, it was very well designed. They had two frames that showed the action going in two different directions by putting the dialogue at opposite ends of each frames. These are just a few examples I found in this story.

After reading the comic from Scott McCloud, I definitely will look at comics in a different way. Most likely I will read more comics just to get a better idea of what I want to do for my comic that I'll make So let's see what happens.....