Week Two

For the second week we were instructed to read "Understanding Comics" by Scott McCloud. I was very amused by the style in which it was written, in which it was written as a comic. I thought that this was a genius way to write about understanding comics, by actually writing it as a comic book. I think that this is genius as it allows the reader to literally connect to the material and visually see the concepts that are being explained, which when you think about explains comics perfectly write there.

I was particularly interested in the section about the how we as people recognize cartoons, compared to other forms of art and drawing. It was really interesting about how it was explained how we attach emotions and identities to these drawings and characters despite the fact that they are non-existent in real life. I also strongly disagree with this as we as people make these creations using our emotions and hope to transfer these characters and their emotional connections with other people which makes these things tangible and relevant to other people in their individual lives.