Scott McCloud Response

I loved this article, it reminded me of those trippy illusion pictures with static things moving or speeds of objects and motions are distorted where you want it not to work, but you can't help but fall straight into it. for example: the Animal Collective cover

By far, the message that came across strongest to me from the introductory paragraph was that it always seems as though many people who have not grown up or been part of the emerging new media tend to cast it off as being amateurish or childish, when in fact it is often these experimental new mediums of expression that can lead to the most influential of things, whether it be the use of comic book style literature to convey a story or the advent of interactive environment gaming, it seems to only be a matter of time before people catch on to the concept that the new medium is here to stay, and is much more complex and can provide more than they could have ever dreamed.

The amazing control McCloud has over your perception of time and space as a reader is simply mind-boggling. I especially loved the times when he would start with a quick idea and then give an example that would put you into an extreme situation of it at seemingly relative ease, such as confusing the reader between the left to right reading or the up to down reading. Another great example of this would be when he was explaining the timelessness a panel can have by the type of frame or lack thereof that someone puts around a panel.

As well the motion part caught my interest in the method of showing whether the reader was traveling with the moving object or standing still as the object passed by. All in all I enjoyed the article, the only thing that I didn't enjoy about the article was the ending, seemed a bit overdone and cheesy, but I probably hate that because my endings whenever I write anything including this response are quite overdone and cheesy no matter how many revisions I do.