Sunday, February 1, 2009

Eisner & McCloud

This comic strip about comics was actually really interesting to me. There were a lot of things that I would never even thought of like what the word comic means. It was obvious that you cannot put a broad definition on it because comics present many different stories.
I really liked chapter two where the whole "This is Not a Pipe" was going on. Then many different icons on the next page had things under it like "This is not my voice or This is not the law." That part kept me interested the most, and it actually made alot of sense.
The "Closure" section was interesting because it was showing how comics do not show every part of what is happeneing, but you yourself fill in the blanks automatically. Like the part where the guy is about to be killed, and then we just assume that he got killed with an axe because in the previous panel that is what it showed. This comic strip had me thinking a lot about things that we ourselves to subconsciously.

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