I’m highly interested in the novel comic style presented by McCloud, where his words and the pictures are combined together vividly to get across to the readers what he is talking about. For instance, when he is trying to explain the function of the space in between, he compares it to the situation shown below:
What is the comic? When touched on, the comic will be a sequence of several humorous but low-class pictures. I remember that it’s been considered as indecent compared to those educational books since a very young age. But according to McCloud, content is not everything. The comic is only an abstract concept, situated between the words and the paintings. Continuity is essential to reading the comic. But the future of the comic is yet to be explored all the time.
The comic is magical. The abstraction of the object is exactly the concrete of intention. The cartoon absorbs the identity of the character. We humans can also unconsciously connect the separated comics to a whole body.
The title is called “understanding the comics”, but I feel like we are being understood by the comics. The author explains that the comics are, but much more emphases are put on why we understand the comics in a specific way.