Week two: Understanding Comics

I found Scott Mccloud's book of Understanding Comics, entertaining and easy to read. It provided a lot of useful information about how to properly read comics, what a comic book consist of and things to look out for when reading comics. It was interesting to find out how involved comics can become and how they affect us. Also having the consistent character/narrator made it more enjoyable to read vs just having words without images. The book provides an in depth look into comics and proves that comics can be a great option when deciding to write a story, the medium offers freedom that no other media can. I also found it interesting that a comic doesn't need to have words in order to tell a story or convey a message; images can be just as powerful as words when trying to understand a story. Mccloud clearly has a vast understanding of comic books and makes it enjoyable for anyone seeking to learn about them easy to do. Lastly I found that the relationship between how we interpret certain things and how closely related they were to comic books was interesting and eye opening, a lot of thought process goes into making a comic in order to make it relatable and easy for us as readers to understand.