Tim Lieder

47. Making Comics by Scott McCloud - Like with Understanding Comics, I may have to read this one again. In fact, I now am thinking about expressions, setting, transitions and style in comics so much that my brain is starting to hurt. It's like when Every Frame a Painting talks about the four quadrants of the scene in Drive and how they influence the viewer. It's not something you think about right away. It's not like with Red Letter Media pointing out that the one second scene of Darth Vader's helmet going onto his bare head is an important character beat - something that you might not think about but totally makes sense. No this is more the things that you never think about as a reader when reading comic books. I certainly don't think about these things.

They work on me, but unlike McCloud I am not outright analyzing them and now I feel like I should. The visual medium of comics makes them very unique. The way that the artist leads you to feeling and thinking certain things works as well.

ANyhow, Scott McCloud blew my mind to the point that I can't even really engage with the text in a meaningful way. I did love his argument that Manga has greatly influenced modern comics because that's a different way of story telling with its own visual cues.