{"id":508,"date":"2009-10-07T11:28:20","date_gmt":"2009-10-07T17:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/?p=508"},"modified":"2009-10-14T14:29:35","modified_gmt":"2009-10-14T20:29:35","slug":"communications-lab-week-5-%e2%80%94-response-to-%e2%80%9cunderstanding-comics%e2%80%9d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alliwalk.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/communications-lab-week-5-%e2%80%94-response-to-%e2%80%9cunderstanding-comics%e2%80%9d\/","title":{"rendered":"Communications Lab: Week 5 \u2014 Response to \u201cUnderstanding Comics\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chapters 1 and 2<\/strong> were interesting summarizations of psychological patterns, as well as introducing the idea of simple, yet complex, design.<\/p>\n

In Chapter 3<\/strong>, I found interesting the discussion on the Visual Iconography of comics. That is, visual iconography is used by comics as its “vocabulary\u201d. Closure, as used in the “gutters”, or spaces between panels, is its grammar.<\/p>\n

I also thought the breakdown of the types of closure \u2013 i.e., subject-to-subject, scene-to-scene, etc \u2013 and the analysis of the evolution of Japanese comics, as a reflection of the Japanese culture, was very interesting as well.<\/p>\n

Chapter 4 <\/strong>was a discussion on the breakdown of the passage of time, which was compared to photographs and the way we typically experience time. My notes include: \u201cTime in comics is different from photographs; we may see several moments in time arranged within the same panel. In photos, the action is all from a single moment\u2026.\u201d and \u201c[in comics] time breaks down into panel-to-panel closure[s].\u201d<\/p>\n

Chapters 5-8<\/strong> discuss the impact of line, and mixing of words and pictures. Points I found interesting:<\/p>\n