Ch. 2 Understanding Comics
What is an icon?
How does knowing what an icon is help you “get” the author’s point about the “Treachery of Images”?
Discuss the concept of the universality of the cartoon. How/why does this concept help readers of comics?
What does mixing less detailed and more detailed styles do?
Which country employs this practice of mixing styles (more so than others)?
According to McCloud, what are the ultimate abstraction?
Describe the picture plane.
What is the chart illustrating pictorial vocabulary? What does it represent?
When an artist approaches the lower left of the chart, what are they most attracted by? What about the top of the chart? The lower left?
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