GG294 Study Guide - Understanding Comics, Medium Specificity, Welsh Rarebit
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Comics have played an important and often underrecognized role in popular culture dating back to the late 19th century (the 1800s) Comics are now so pervasive that many of us already have at least a passable understanding of the medium without any special training. When confronted with a comic, many of us are able to intuitively understand them. We seem to know how to assemble the jumble of discrete frames (known as. Panels ), each containing some combination of visual images and text, into comprehensible stories. Such intuitive understandings only get us so far, they don"t do justice to the medium"s formal specificity or take into account its aesthetic development over time. Scott mccloud, understanding comics: most of us probably have an intuitive sense of. Those bright, colourful magazines filled with bad art, stupid stories and guys in tights . This description is not acceptable or sufficient as a definition of the medium.
