McCloud first states, can emotions be visual? I think they can be in several different ways, since certain images describe emotions by an icon, or certain images. I think it really depends on the reader, from their past experiences, and how they relate to certain stories is how they will decipher the story. This is […]

Additionally, comic writers need to constantly think about choice of moment, frame, flow, word and image, to think about the finished product. To start with, the comic can be a rough sketch of the images, dialogue and narration but always think about the final product. The writer can mess around with the order of the […]

Writing with pictures is a huge way to get a mental picture of what the writer is trying to get across to the reader. McCloud states that there are two things that storytellers want from the audience, understanding what the writer tells them and wanting them to care enough to finish the whole story. Clarity […]

Comics come in all different shape and sizes. Each panel shows a single moment in time, which is crucial when reading a comic because the visual story needs to match up with the story that is being read. If there is space in between the panels, or blanks, the reader is filling their mind with […]

In McCloud’s comic article, it states all about different icons and cartoons. Icons come in myriad amounts of forms, the word spat is not a sound, a picture of a flag is not a country and a picture of a hamburger and fries are not food. However, pictures do represent the subject, other icons represents […]

From the previous article, I stated that Quentin Tarantino is one of the most original filmmakers of this era. From his biography, he claimed that he got a job at a video store, where several movie industry insiders go to and he wound  up writing a script and giving it to them. All in all, […]

Quentin Tarantino is one of the most original film makers of his era, even though his films can be extremely controversial. His films are high on violence, but in a way that is different to other films, especially Pulp Fiction and the Kill Bill series that are explained in this article. These two movies are […]

The article states their own made up word- Apatovian, adj. of or pertaining the film comedies of writer/director Judd Apatow. Judd Apatow wrote and/or produced several comedies, for example, The 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, and Forgetting Sarah Marshall. All of those movies are down right hilarious.  Knocked Up is by far one of the most […]

Almost every single one of Judd Apatow’s films consists of a man, who is worthless, either stoned out and is a huge gamer. However at the end of the film, time after time, that man is turned into a mensche. A mensche in Jewish terms is a responsible man, that takes care of himself and […]

From the last article about video games, it asked the reader what technically is fun for the gamer when the individual thinks gaming is more work than fun. Since individuals spend hours at a time playing video games, the media reports negative affects or influences. With the content of video games always being looked at […]