"Understanding Comics" by Scott McCloud thoughts (3 point)

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 Reading the "Understanding Comics" by Scott McCloud was a delightful experience. 

I want to be a comic artist, and since 16 years old, I was drawing comics for fun. I have never been taught how to do that. And I never was thinking how good am I doing it. I was looking at art and idea and was paneling intuitively without thinking. That is why it was exciting to discover in chapter three, six types of paneling. 

Moment-to-moment, Action-to-Action, Subject-to-Subject, scene-to-scene, aspect-to-aspect, and Non-sequitur. 

I looked at my comics and found out that I was rarely using type 5 and 6. But I found these types interesting, so I will try to implement these types in my paneling. I think it can add a lot of depth to the atmosphere and story in the comic. 

Then in chapter 4, I discovered something that I wasn't thinking about either. That by changing the shape of the panel, you can make the time go slower and faster. This is such a brilliant idea that I have never used before. 

Finally, in chapter six, I also discovered seven types of words and images connection. 

Words specific, picture specific, duo-specific, additive, and parallel, montage, and inter-dependent.

Another concept that I have never thought about and maybe was doing intuitively. 


In the end, the comic gets very inspiring about an artist who was reaching the newer heights from the surface to craft, structure, idiom, then form and idea. It inspired me to move forward and master all the aspects of the creation of the comic. 


Because of this book, I realized that there is still so much to learn. 

I now would like to read all of Scott's MacCloud books. 

-Aleksandra Ferentc


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