I was shocked after reading Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud, as there are so many things that’s going on a piece of paper…Time, icon, motion, emotion, motion, sound, space...etc. I can’t really point out ONE thing that I am most interest in, as all of them have some really deep thinking and skill behind them for me to learn and study. However one of the thing that makes we think about the most is how he talked about how art is born because people sometime has nothing to do. He pointed out that art is basically self expression, and the reason we do art is because we can’t read each other’s mind. I think it’s interesting that he literally pointed out that art is basically everything we do to express our thought and emotion including bicycle style, signature…etc, and for who says that he or she did it for nothing but art is basically saying “MY ART HAS NO PRACTICLE VALUE WHATSOEVER!” . He also said that the “Pure” art is essentially tied to the question of PURPOSE and what you want to achieve with what you do or create. I take every artist should have something in mind before creating something, or maybe there is no meaningless art as we all have something in mind when we do it.
After reading the book as I am more interested on the topic I did some research on him and found a talk he gave on TED. The talk is basically about the future of comic and a little background history of where he came from. He was from a family full of scientist like his father who was blamed, and this effect the way he sees things and the way he sees comic as a media. During the talk he pointed out that the comic media is always there ever since Stone Age, and not much has change including reading from left to right, up to down, or the time is always going forward as you go through them. However there is one thing that modern comic is different them the ancient one...the “unbreakable line”. The unbreakable line is a line that your eyes fallowing the images either on paper, animal skin or stone, and most of the time in the ancient “comic” the line is never broken. Modern comic on paper is breaking the line by page, and he believes the flow of the comic is therefore lost because of that. He pointed out that the TIME is being broken because the panels are being broken by the edge of the page, and the time is broken. He believes this can be fixing by using modern technology, like the PC. He believe that if we see PC as a window and draw the comic in a continues way, the time will not be broken. (Isn’t this just like traditional animation?)
“All Medias provide us a window back to the world we are living”
Imagine a comic created in a multiple time line, multiple ending, and multiple choices and yet connected to either other like a web. This almost sounds like an information map, but how big of a page do we need for that? We can solve the problem with the modern technology to allow us to have a endless amount of pages and the story can have endless amount of choice which he believe is the future of comic.
In the end those are four things he pointed out that’s important to everyone:
- Learn from everyone
- Follow no one
- Look for patterns
- Work like hell
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