I was never one to read comic books growing up. I still don’t read comic books. I think part of it was because I never really watched a lot of cartoons growing up either. One thing that I’ve always wondered is how do you read from each panel to each panel? Sometimes the pages aren’t constructed in such a way that each panel is side by side and it is then easy to know to read from left to right, naturally. Scott McCloud addressed this point in his book about comics. While I was reading this book, I kept on catching myself first trying to figure out where to go from frame to frame when it wasn’t totally obvious. The more I read, however, the easier it was to pick up on. It wasn’t until maybe around 60 or 70 pages in that he touched on this area. It was pretty breif, but the mention was made to help us as the readers realize that there are things in this world that are natural to us. It is only normal for us to read from left to right, top to bottom — in the West anyway. In the East, some things are different — including reading and writing styles\/formats. Differences between the two cultures are also noticable when it comes to comics. Japanese-style comics were different and in some ways more advanced or ahead of the curve. <\/p>\n
After thinking about relationships between comics and some other sources of media, one common theme I found between comics and the game Zork is that both are read from frame-to-frame. In between the frames are the ‘gutters’ of comics where the reader becomes involved and participates. In the game Zork and others alike, the user is participating by playing and making decisions. Also, the game is presented one "frame" at a time. Each scene or space that you are in is a frame of time or space. This is another relation I was able to come up with. Scott McCloud talks about time and space in his book and how the size of a frame could possibly play a role in how long a scene is, or extend a dramatic moment by lengthening one frame over another. Zork is able to present this through the text it responds to you with. Based on the text, you can then determine which space you will be going in. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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