We all perceive time spatially as well the same in comics. McCloud then mentions about the panel shapes and the bubble shapes shows a significant power as to how a comic could be told and can effect the reading experience. What McCloud states is true that the contents within the panel is much more defined than the panel by itself. Panels can be silent – which can tell the whole entire story without sound, but if captioned it would enhance the story to indicate time or space being divided. Single moment.” McCloud explains from a panel that each figure is arranged from left to right, paralleling how we read, that each of them occupies a “distinct time slot.” By inserting panels and gutters will act the same way as to how the story was meant to be told to make the sequence clear. McCloud mentions that “our eyes are well-trained by the photograph and by representational art to see any single continuous image as a single instant in time.” Meaning the photographs can act as individual panels and can act as series understand what can happen in order matched in time. Without experience we wouldn’t be able to comprehend the actions and reactions, but with those experiences with can extend our imagination.

(This book may contain a small, black sharpie mark on the bottom edge, so that it can't be returned to a different wholesaler.More thoughts on “Understanding Comics – The Invisible Art” by Scott McCloud. What makes a comic a comic? Why do people relate more to a simplified cartoon than a realistic depiction of a human? What happens between the comic panels? How is the passage of time depicted in comics? How do comics express feeling? These questions and many more are answered in this comprehensive volume, which is, of course, written and illustrated completely in comics form.

Scott explores the unique language of comics, and how they developed from cave paintings and hieroglyphics into what we see today. There have been many books about comics history published previous to this, and many since, but none have looked at the way comics work quite as intimately as Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics. Originally published in 1993, Scott McCloud's tome on the language and art of the sequential narrative has become legendary in the years that have passed.

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