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Comics Notes – Ch. 2 & 3

Chapter Two –
 * icon – any image used to represent a person, place, thing or idea
 * amplification through simplification
 * amplifying an idea (making it bigger)
 * by simplifying the pictures
 * We all look out at the world through a mask (our own face)
 * We see a complex view of others
 * we see a simple view of ourselves
 * McCloud’s argument: this simple view of ourselves is what allows us to identify with (connect to) a simpler image – like the simplest face icon.
 * metacognition – thinking about thinking

Chapter Three
 * Gutter- the white space on the page between the panels
 * closure – filling in what hasn’t been shown
 * a sense of resolution, finality
 * in comics: the ability of the reader to fill in what happens without being shown every detail of the story
 * closure in comics happens in the gutters
 * McCloud identifies six transition types
 * like all literature, the viewer/reader has no choice but to be involved in creating the story.