![]() ![]() I found it fascinating, and like I said, by chapter three I was hooked. It is chapter two that begins to look deeper into how images affect us. And McCloud argues that comics are a legitimate art form that has largely gone unstudied. What we often consider to be a childish form of entertainment today is a form of communication that seems to have been natural to humans since our beginning. McCloud begins the book trying to answer the question “what is comics?” The definition he comes up with is “juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or produce an aesthetic response in the viewer.” He goes on to examine that definition by looking at how comics have evolved through human history, from the Aztecs to the 1400s to modern day. ![]() What hooked me though was McCloud’s presentation of how the human mind handles images and language, and he does it within the comic format. This is a graphic novel about the theory, history, and art of comic books. I just know that Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art is one of them. Don’t ask me what the other nine are because I had never thought about my top-ten favorite nonfiction books until that moment. I was sixty pages into this book when I realized it had already earned a spot in my top-ten favorite nonfiction books. ![]()
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