UNDERSTANDING COMICS RESPONSE


Lit. of Comics & The Graphic Narrative

After reading the Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud, I was impressed by the differences of time representation in western tradition comic and Japanese manga. It was the first time I know something like the longer the grid, the more time passed in comic. In other words, in western comic, character may need to talk more, give more information to the reader in one single grid to make sure the readers wont get confused even if a huge amount of time passed between two panel. Japanese comic, in the other hand, tend to have more breakdown. It is more like a featured film storyboard to me. However, the disadvantage of this is the story may get too long and reader may get board soon after tons of daily, no-important conversation between character.


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