In chapter 6 of McClouds Understanding Comics, I like how he opened the chapter with showing how as little kids we used a combination of words and images (or showing) to get our point across. Eventually, we grow out of that. Combination of words and images is like comics, but, we’re supposed to “grow out” of that. I also liked how he explained that pictures and words went totally opposite sides of the spectrum for a while and they were never used together. They then started to migrate towards each other again. I guess you could consider an advertisement a comic in a way because there are few words and a picture to describe what it is. When he explained the different kinds of categories of comics more of this chapter made sense. There is word specific comics where the words are the ones that mostly describe what’s happening while the picture is not very detailed. There is also picture specific where there are few words but you can tell by the detail of the picture exactly what is happening. Then there is a mix of both called duo-specific where the words and picture are both detailed and saying the same story.
There wasn’t much I disliked about this chapter. I am just not a huge fan of comics in general, but McCloud does a good job of making this book pretty interesting and not boring or too weird.
This chapter can help people understand how texts work because he basically showed the evolution of text and pictures together and how they relate and don’t relate.
Discussion Question: McCloud says “as long as we view comics as a genre of writing or a style of graphic art this attitude may never disappear,” talking about how comic artists are never able to match the achievements of other media. Why do you think this is?
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