Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Understanding Comics Ch. 4-9

while reading this, one of the things that caught my eye (besides the color pages) was the mention of popular attitudes. after reading through this book my understanding of the comic world was expanded. i appreciated their cultural importance before, but i now get the artistic significance as well. somehow after learning about that i was caught off gaurd by the talk of this form being looked down upon.
"any artist wishing to do great work in a medium using words and pictures will have to contend with this attitude. in others and in themselves..." (p150) and its true
one thing im not sure i agree with is mccloud's version of cavemen's early artwork. im not personaly sure of what i think happened but i dont like his simplified version of artistic creation.

1 comment:

Nels P. Highberg said...

Oh, interesting. I've heard some people argue that he makes a bigger deal about the cavemen. I'd be curious to hear more about why you think he's actually simplified things. Sounds fascinating.