Friday, September 15, 2006
Week #4 Reader Response
Sorry this week's response is so late.
Watching last season's episodes of Lost...interferes with work...
Now, on to this week's post, which actually necessitates a two-part response on your end.
Part I:
In Understanding Comics, McCloud states, "...words -- are the ultimate abstraction". Do you agree or disagree, and Why? What do you think about McCloud's idea for a unified "language of comics"? What does that even mean?
Part II:
In Wright's book, Comic Book Nation, the author is piecing together a cultural history of comic books and as such, he is not interested in the aesthetics or the art form of comics. His interests lie in the cultural representation of the comic book in America. Knowing this, formulate a response to reading Chapter 1 from his book, "Superheroes for the Common Man: The Birth of the Comic Book Industry, 1933-1941". What does Wright have to say about the origins of the comic book phenomenon in America?
Watching last season's episodes of Lost...interferes with work...
Now, on to this week's post, which actually necessitates a two-part response on your end.
Part I:
In Understanding Comics, McCloud states, "...words -- are the ultimate abstraction". Do you agree or disagree, and Why? What do you think about McCloud's idea for a unified "language of comics"? What does that even mean?
Part II:
In Wright's book, Comic Book Nation, the author is piecing together a cultural history of comic books and as such, he is not interested in the aesthetics or the art form of comics. His interests lie in the cultural representation of the comic book in America. Knowing this, formulate a response to reading Chapter 1 from his book, "Superheroes for the Common Man: The Birth of the Comic Book Industry, 1933-1941". What does Wright have to say about the origins of the comic book phenomenon in America?
// posted by Kate @ 3:12 PM 
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Part I
When McCloud says that words are the ultimate abstraction he means that words can serve to represent images as clearly as a picture. I think. People sometimes prefer books over movies because they prefer the image they get from the words rather then the ones provided for them in a movie. When McCloud talks about a unified language of comics he means that comics shouldn't be seperated into picture and words, they should be taken as a unified whole. I think that when criticizing anything you break it down to its parts. When reading a book you might look at it's grammar and sentence structure or when analyzing a picture you might look at certain aspects of it like it's color scheme. So when looking at a comic I don't see whats wrong with breaking it down into it's parts and looking at them individually.
Part II
Wright says that while comics were not very popular when they were just funny, they really took off when creators expanded to mystery and crime fighting. He also covers how the comic industry solidified into an actaul industry instead of just random artists contributing when they needed an extra buck like in the begining.
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When McCloud says that words are the ultimate abstraction he means that words can serve to represent images as clearly as a picture. I think. People sometimes prefer books over movies because they prefer the image they get from the words rather then the ones provided for them in a movie. When McCloud talks about a unified language of comics he means that comics shouldn't be seperated into picture and words, they should be taken as a unified whole. I think that when criticizing anything you break it down to its parts. When reading a book you might look at it's grammar and sentence structure or when analyzing a picture you might look at certain aspects of it like it's color scheme. So when looking at a comic I don't see whats wrong with breaking it down into it's parts and looking at them individually.
Part II
Wright says that while comics were not very popular when they were just funny, they really took off when creators expanded to mystery and crime fighting. He also covers how the comic industry solidified into an actaul industry instead of just random artists contributing when they needed an extra buck like in the begining.
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