We learn with McCloud that an icon is used to represent a place, thing or ida in a very simple manner. It has to be "abstract", or "unlike human" because it is easier for us as the reader to connect with a character that does not have assigned facial expression but that instead portrays the feeling itself. In a comic you use images because words do not "resemble the real thing".
I thought it was enious the way the uthor explained the matterial in a very informal manner and at the same time giving you examples of what he was talking about.
Thursday, January 24, 2008
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Does it always have to be abstract? I mean could the author for instance, use known figures, or atleast almost exact repilcatca drawsing to evoke an emotion. Say the author was writing a graphic novel that was to be used as propaganda agaisnt the government, abstract or more defined...i guess it would depend on the argument. Just wondering if anyone else thought that when they were reading McCloud's piece.
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