Actually, I’m a person who doesn’t have any special feelings about comics. I remember the last time I read comics was probably in elementary school. But after reading “Understanding Comics”, I have a further understanding of comics in an art form. Scott McCloud defines comics by “juxtaposed pictorial and other images deliberate sequence”. Basically comics are a sequence of images based on space that has a narrative-like quality and visual direction to them. A comic book artist tends to use diverse types of painting style, line work and color to convey certain emotions, physical or mental characteristics for the reader to interpret. He somehow gives us an understanding that the more simple a comic, the more personality and diverse meaning, because if a comic is created too specific as well as vivid which is closed to the reality, it will limit people’s imagination and lost the basic function of a medium from the narrative itself. The space between one panel and the next is called a gutter, which helps with the flow of the story and carries the reader from one picture to the next. The comics author can regard it as a technique to not only shape the readers’ understanding of the comics but also give readers more space to imagine.
I learned that comics serve a very strong purpose in terms of storytelling, and everyone has their way of reading comics. The comics really dig down to the core of what really needs to be envisioned by the reader in order to create events happening throughout time. It is a concept, that when understood, can be applied to other forms of media that require a significant amount of engagement from the reader.