Week2-Response to McCloud by Jialu

When I was little, I enjoyed reading comic books a lot, most of which were Japanese comics such as Doraemon and Crayon Shin-chan. As I grew up, comics seem to be getting farther and farther from me. I became more into motion pictures. McCloud’s book reminded me of how imaginary comics can be. They can easily achieve things that couldn’t be achieved by films even with the help of visual effects. Comics generate our imagination. As we are reading a comic book, we see motion, hear sounds, feel the environment (heat of the sunshine, coolness of the breeze……), smell the scent…… All our senses are activated when we are reading comics. And I think that is truly amazing to burry myself in the universe of imagination. Just as McCloud believes, it’s really hard to predict what comics would be like in the future. It is beyond our imagination and at the same time, it is calling for us to break the boundaries of our mind.

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