In the book Understanding Comics McCloud talks about how he humans are so condition to recognize different icons and know what they stand for. Comics have two important icons that looked over a lot by people. With these icons that comic just wouldn’t make sense. These icons are the word bubbles and the panels. In his novel McCloud says “…the most widely-used most complex and most versatile of comics’ many synesthetic icons is the ever-present, ever-popular word balloon” (McCloud,). Comics won’t be understandable without word bubbles. They are half of what tells the story to the readers. In the comic Are You My Mother?, the main character, Alison, and her mother were having a conversation over the phone. The shapes of their word bubbles were different. Alison’s word bubble looked like a typical word bubble, very round like, but her mother’s word bubble was
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They help reader identify the sequence of events in the story. McCloud talk about how when person looks at a single picture they often don’t realize that each event in that photo is not happening at the same time. He says “…we’ve been too conditioned by photography to perceive single images as single moments.” (McCloud, pg97). That is why panels are important in comic’s books. They help the reader understand what happens and when. McCloud also says that “The panels act as a sort if general indicator that time of space is being divided.”(McCloud, pg. 99). Without panels, how would we understand the story? In the first chapter of the comic Are You My Mother? Alison almost gets ran off the road by a tuck. This scene was broken up in to about three different panels. The first panel the truck is cutting in front of Alison. The second panel shows Alison swerving to avoid hitting the truck, and lastly the last panel show Alison reaction to what just happened. Bechdel broke this scene up to show her readers the sequence of events like McCloud was talking
They help reader identify the sequence of events in the story. McCloud talk about how when person looks at a single picture they often don’t realize that each event in that photo is not happening at the same time. He says “…we’ve been too conditioned by photography to perceive single images as single moments.” (McCloud, pg97). That is why panels are important in comic’s books. They help the reader understand what happens and when. McCloud also says that “The panels act as a sort if general indicator that time of space is being divided.”(McCloud, pg. 99). Without panels, how would we understand the story? In the first chapter of the comic Are You My Mother? Alison almost gets ran off the road by a tuck. This scene was broken up in to about three different panels. The first panel the truck is cutting in front of Alison. The second panel shows Alison swerving to avoid hitting the truck, and lastly the last panel show Alison reaction to what just happened. Bechdel broke this scene up to show her readers the sequence of events like McCloud was talking