ENGB38H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, Calvin And Hobbes
Document Summary
Written in 1993; publish 2 sequels since then (reinventing comics and remaking comics) An essay on comics in comic form - by using the medium of the comic he can better describe/show the multiple methods used in the art and writing of comics. Comics are an artform, like painting or a written piece (pg. The content is, for example, a superhero comic or a horror comic. Sequential art is the definition that mccloud begins with, but realises this definition can be very broad. Refines it to sequential visual art , but then it"s argued that film fits this definition as well. The idea that space does to comics what time does to film (pg. 7) - it"s presented in a way that we can read it any way we want (because all the panels are laid out for us to see) *for our purposes, sequential art is a good enough definition for comics in this class.
