Sunday, April 11, 2010
comic & alphabetetical text
Just as McCloud discussed in his comic, comic is a medium to tell a story or convey a message. It does the same thing as a book with alphabetical text. As for how the story or message is told through them, I feel that comic does a better job with it. Personally I don't like to read anything with too many words in them, especially when it takes a page or more just to describe something I don't feel relevant to the story, but makes me feel I will miss something important if skip it, which makes it hard for me to concentrate and fall asleep rather easily. For comic, it is much easier to look at the drawings and visualize exactly what is going on. It is like whole page of what would be in alphabetical text that describes background and scene compressed into few drawings. Then it is up to the reader if he/she wants to find out the details of the story in those drawings, or simply skim over them just to read the whole. In the end, the story coming out of book filled with text or comic it still the same. My friend said that they give off different impacts while reading it. I don't quite understand that, since i never read comic and alpha-text book of the same story, and that I really don't read much at all... Any thoughts on what different feelings they would convey?
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I am the same in that I do not read a whole lot. Reading is something that I wish I did more often, but like you stated, I often find myself bored or falling asleep. Comics are a much faster read and the pictures make it so much easier to follow. I think that the detail of the stories could be expressed much differently in these two different styles. Alphabetic tet can take paragraphs to describe the physical appearance of someone where as a comic can do the same thing in one simple picture. I personally feel more connected to the characters when I am shown a picture or drawing of them and their surroundings than I do when I am forced to create that image on my own.
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