Understanding Comics (3 points)
"Understanding Comics" , by Scott McCloud takes a lot of time to talk about relatively simple concepts, taking a deep dive into the perception of reality for a good majority of the beginning of the book. From a callback to Magritte's "The Treachery of Images" with the pages filled with "this is not a pipe"-esque statements to the increasing abstraction of the human face until it becomes simply the word "face" or an amalgamation of shapes nearly unreadable as a face, McCloud seems to focus quite intensely on the fact that the personification of images comes naturally to human beings, considering the fact that they personify things that aren't remotely human, such as their cars or cans of soup. Through the process of identity and characterization, a comic book artist can draw just about anything, call it a character, and humans would naturally feel inclined to connect to the character and find ways to relate to it. He also takes a fe