Comics

Understanding Comics was an invisible art until I began to read the book by Scott McCloud.  He took the format of comic text and explained its layout in a manner that I can understand.  I will never look at comics in the same way again.  Comics are more than pictures to entertain; they are juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence.  The sequential layouts are in six segments:  moment-to-moment, action- to-action, subject-to-subject, scene-to-scene, and aspect-to-aspect, and non-sequitur.  After I analyzed these formats I could see how the composer of comic strip includes and excludes material without losing the story.