Eisner and McCloud

Even when I was a kid I never really read comics. I guess I read the occasional comic in the Sunday paper, but never consistently. So, when I read all of this analysis on the comics I was kind of blown away at the thought put into it.

Eisner had more a formal way to explain the art of comics. He talked a lot on how reading is now thought of as seeing letters on a page and what hey symbolically represent. He said that comics are when art and literature become one in our mind. Our mind comprehends both of these simultaneously. Comics are also repetitive images in order to drill certain ideas into the readers head. He said that comics interlock timing and rhythm through the action and framing throughout.

McCloud had a more enjoyable way to explore comics. I liked how he used comics to explain comics. He pointed out some very interesting things like how comics have the same idea as movies except comics don't always have the same frame space. He concentrated a lot on how words are just symbols and in our minds we put ideas to pictures. He also said our minds take simple cartoons and make them into reality when in reality, they are far from the an actual image.