Comics

I enjoyed reading these comics online. It was much more enjoyable than reading a text. There were many great points made, such as the notion that something as simple as a line can have many different connotations behind it. It was also pretty interesting how they pointed out that in a comic, smoke from a pipe has the same lines that come from the stench of a garbage can, and that even when taken out of context, the reader can understand these lines - that they mean it reeks. Illustrating the invisible happens when artists (or anyone for that matter) continually use a certain symbol until it becomes REAL. This is similar to what we're going over in my english class (intro to poetry), we've gone over a chapter about symbolism in poetry, and many symbols become what's called "conventional symbols" - which are exactly what is being talked about in the comic: symbols that are used so often that they acquire a standard significance.