Understanding Comics

Throughout the ages comics have changed in style and manner, but the basics of comics innate in its definition is a juxtaposed pictorial and other image in deliberate sequence. I had hoped that receiving this information through the comic would be entertaining, but it was presented in a slow fashion. I felt annoyed on trying to answer “what is a comic?” when the whole time I was reading a comic. I must admit that the pictures were entertaining, but to read through frame by frame to receive very little content felt time consuming and tiring. I felt that it was an inefficient way of informing a reader about the broad and depths of a comic. I had hoped that the pace of the comic would soon change. The content began to be a bit more interesting when McCloud started go into the history of comics. It was interesting to see that Egyptian hieroglyphs and other cultural societies around the world had a form of sequential art. I found it particularly interesting that each culture had its own direction in reading their comic. It was from these differences between the styles that I could really see that comics had a malleable format around the parameters of its definition.