Cartoon as Vacuum
November 25th, 2007
Nine panels from Scott McCloud’s comic book on comic books, Understanding Comics.
On the universality of a cartoon face (p31):
And thus our universal identification (p36):
A diagram of the pictorial vocabulary of comics, from reality & resemblance to language, meaning, & iconicity, and their representation on the picture plane, as ink on paper (p51):
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On our emotional response to line (p119):
November 26th, 2007 at 12:10 pm
The book is relevant to so much more than its title implies. Anyone who ever communicates will get something out of it.
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December 3rd, 2010 at 11:50 am
It Is a significant statement that we put ourselves into the picture frame of the cartoon and of other media to some extent.
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November 1st, 2024 at 9:10 am
Great delivery. Outstanding arguments. Keep up the good spirit.