Mccloud: The Use Of Comics

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Comics have been given the wrong impression by society their usually known for being bad art and only being read by guys in tights, but it's more than that it's been in our world for decades. Theres many cultures where they used drawings and simple text to express a shorty story of their situation. In understanding Comics, McCloud use many facts that will help back up his intentioned towards the direction he was heading. One thing he mentioned was a manuscript that was discovered in 1519, McCloud said, “This 36-foot long, BRIGHTLY-COLORED painting screenfold tells of the great MILITARY and POLITICAL HERE 8-DEER “TIGER-CLAW” is it comics? You BET it us! We can even read some!” (McCloud 10).This is an important fact because he is trying to give

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