I enjoyed listening to Scott McCloud’s speech, The visual magic of comics, I especially enjoyed the fact that he shared such a personal story. Scott McCloud shared that his father had faith in him, in his abilities as a cartoonist, even though he had no evidence if Scott was a great cartoonist due to being blind. This is something that McCloud described as blind-faith, not being able to physically see something but have faith that it is working out the way you picture it working out in your head
Words and Images Words and images are the couple that should never be separated. As mentioned in Scott McCloud’s, “Show and Tell,” we are taught from childhood that we should mature out from using images in our writing. Comics are viewed as amateurish in the professional field of English. We are continuously told that comics and usage of images in a text are pretty “childish” and should not be tolerated by the “higher” level of English. If the meaning of a text is transferred through the employment
Analytical Essay The graphic essay “Show and Tell” by Scott McCloud is written in the form of a comic book as he explains the importance of words and images, and how to effectively use the two components when creating a comic. “Show and Tell” explains to the reader how creating a successful comic does not occur easily, as numerous components must be used in the right way and amount in order to create a product that is worthwhile to its readers. This insightful graphic essay portrays to the reader
A common description of comic books comes from their appearance in cartoons and comic strips, where a teacher catches a child reading a comic book tucked between the pages of their schoolwork. Prevailing attitudes formed off of this kind of perception render the idea of the comic form as a diversion, lacking serious content, and perhaps immature. However, the comic form uses many techniques to explore subject matter that is difficult to deal with in traditional educational ways. This paper will look
Comic Book Literature It's funny how time flies and how the memory seems to go with it. I remember when I was fourteen and decided to write the great American novel. I thought then that I was going to have to like the dreaded of all subjects, English. I gave it a good try. I gave 110% to the writing assignments, read most of what they told us was good, and really tried diligently to care about gerunds. But like it or not, a lot of English was drier than my grandmother's skin. I tried remembering
1.1 Background of the Study The term “folklore” pertains to a story verbally told among people. In the Philippines, fFolklores have since existed even before the colonial era. These fFolklores hold the very traditional values and beliefs of Filipinos before their colonizers influenced them (reference). Because of the Philippine’s geographical location, archipelagic nature, various ethnic groups, and diverse historical influences that structured the Filipinos as to who they are now, the existing
Belonging and Difference in Imagined Communities Much recent theory has been concerned with defining and examining 'new media': the forms of communication and mediation that have arisen through advances in electronics and digital technologies. These new media forms and the speed of their dissemination are paralleled by faster transportation and the movement and subsequent settlement of peoples across the globe in what has come to be called 'diaspora'. The situation is such that many of the old
some instances, the reader has to make a decision independently on which panel comes first and which one comes later concerning the whole story. The concept from McCloud of closure and gutter can still be applied concerning the medium of enhanced webcomics. The gutter matters according to the communication method with the readers. As a result, panels and images can be arranged in different ways (Batinic 22). The concept is useful according to McCloud because it means that while reading comic books
May didn’t have to go and risk her life trying to find and rescue Libby. She could have just read the webcomic and assumed that someone got ahold of their old papers, or maybe figured that Libby had told someone about it before her “death”. May was determined to find her best friend, even though a crazy kidnapper was after her and Trick. I would definitely
Don’t judge a book by it’s cover. The concept behind that saying has grown vastly over the past decades and has gradually developed into a very deep statement. It became a powerful quote that depicts the fault in judging something or someone for the first time. Racial inequality has been a growing problem world wide and with the development in propaganda, notions and beliefs about race and its diversity in entertainment have been viewed negatively by society in innumerable ways. Race refers to a
Visual Narrative is an all-encompassing idiom. The narrative can be static(e.g. Sequential art like comics), dynamic(e.g. Movies, Animation) or interactive(e.g. computer games). In addition to a story itself, a narrative signifies the act of telling the story. A narrative has a syntax, grammar where the basic elements, the functions can be composed in well-defined ways - action sequence. The structure is recursive; each level can be used at a lower level.(Chomsky, 1965) When you move through the
Introduction Since 1500, the economies of Europe and Asia had been extending their reach overseas. With the establishment of the Atlantic system of trade, these economies exercised their mercantilist desires, America became a cultural mixing bowl, and the spread of knowledge and technology amplified. Because of this ever-increasing global interaction, between 1750 and 1870 momentous changes occurred across the world in agriculture, politics, economics, and technology. Considered one of the greatest
Despite the perpetuation of harmful stereotypes and the resulting spread of misinformation that appears to plague many mainstream instances of asexual representation, the existence of more accurate representation in newer media seems to positively affect the perception of the asexual community and the mental health of those within it. One example of a positively received, explicitly asexual character in mainstream media is Todd Chavez from the TV series Bojack Horseman. Bojack Horseman is a Netflix-original