When i was reading this comic, i was very interested right off the bat because i really wanted to learn about good comics vs. bad comics.
What i thought was interesting was the fact of simplifying a form or like the example he gave a realistic portrait of someone is better for cartoons to make it more simple. The artist can strip down the image where they are not eliminating details but they are focusing on specific details. Which i always didn't know how simple you could go with that, but apparently a circle and two dots and a line could be enough for our eyes to read this person.
I thought it was cool how you could have friend draw irregular closed curves and every one of those can turn into a simple face by just adding an eye or eyes.
The thing that i was ineterested in was how thet when people interact, they have vivid details about the other person talking to them because they are anaylzing that person. But for when you are talking to someone and you are smiling, you can picture yourself less vividly. You know that you are smiling but you do not know what it exactly looks like. How would you know that you had a piece of spinach in your teeth? You wouldn't until you looked in the mirror while you went to the bathroom after eating that deep fried chicken. But the other person would notice it and in their mind would have a detailed version of it from staring at it every time you would open your mouth or smile.
Realistic vs. Cartoon: when they stated that it is easier to read the text when there is a simple form of cartoon rather than a realistic version, i noticed right away that they were right. the one page had a realistic person saying something and the next panel was the cartoon speaking, and i noticed how much easier it was to read the cartoon rather than the realistic one.
i enjoyed this reading, mainly because i finally got a good idea of what is good and what is bad in the comic books and also reasoning's behind why they put that icon there, or split an image.
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