first responce

I love the way that Scott McCloud has written his text book on graphic novels like a graphic novel. I think that it is a very unique way of appealing to what he knows his readers are interested in. It is an easy way for him to get his lessons across using the same parts of the brain his audience uses while they are enjoying the pass time of reading graphic novels. Going into the history of it all was something I had not thought about. I mean it seems like it should be common cense to see what the ancient Egyptians did in their drawings and relate it back, but my mind has not been conditioned to do that. I found it entertaining how he came up with his definition by using an audience to put in different feedback in what he was saying. It reminded me of an involved class discussion, like on the first day of school when you are trying to figure out what the class rules should be. I think that I will enjoy reading more of McCloud’s thoughts on the subject of graphic novels. Also, my favorite part in the second chapter was that he made us realize that we were not “listening” to what he had to say in his word bubbles, and we were not actually seeing a stop sign, or what other symbols seen in graphic novels.