I was really impressed with our reading. I honestly never thought that I'd have any particular liking for graphic comics, though I know people who do like them a lot so I didn't judge them. Now I understand more of the draw to them but on a deeper level, I was really impressed. Specifically, I really liked how it cut out the bullshit and just spoke at a basic level of "this-is-this". It made it easy to follow and--- well, a little like looking in a mirror held up to humanity.
I particularly liked the Iconicity and Words and Images chapters. I guess I do have really specific examples but I mostly just liked how it lead into each though and each though was big and powerful but small enough to understand, or relate to.
Our faces are masks. I love that that was pointed out. I feel like that a lot and it is interesting how poignantly that can be displayed through a cartoony man with cute glasses.
I'm really interested to see what everyone else thought of this: I'm sure some of you are taking Lit Crit this semester and it has been a long time since I've taken that class but this reading called to mind readings in that class: Any thoughts tying the two together? It seems like the evolution of language is particularly relevant -- not only in this class but as a pressing issue for English majors and society in general. I think people worry unnecessarily about it... Thoughts?
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ReplyDeleteThoughts...Signified and Signifier? Does it matter if it is a word or an image so long as it gets the message across?
ReplyDeleteI did enjoy the simplicity of the comic book way of writing, it was straight forward and cut out all the non sense we normally encounter with educational writing; such as with our readings for next week…talk about non-sense and ongoing sentences that mean nothing to me…The fact that we can relate so well with the graphic comics shows how important icons are in our everyday lives.
ReplyDeleteIt seems to me that most everyone agrees that they liked the simplicity and straightforwardness of the comic style of reading. And it seems to me that nowadays, when the entire society is focused on the quickest way to do things, that this simplicity factor might end up being a push to change our learning system more quickly.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you pointed out the faces as masks concept. It didn't really strike me in the reading, but now that I think about it, it's a powerful idea. How we look to ourselves is completely different than how others do, and perhaps depicting things simply (like a cartoon face) is any easy way for two different people to be on a more similar page?