Comics to me was the most fun thing I growing up watching in my childhood, and I still enjoy comics a lot. Comics show both reality and fantasy.It is based on our culture and some times deal with issue in our society or give message to people. It is somewhat similar to movie, drama, and TV shows. However, people often take comics very lightly compare to others. Even though comics contain and give similar message or information. It is still taking lightly by people. It is funny how much movies and dramas are made by comics stories. Such as SuperMen, bet-man, wonder women, and many others. No comics are made by movie or drama stories. Comics are important. A text book defines comics as juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence intended to convey information and/or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer.” However, I think there is more to it. It is hard to say there is only one definition to explain what exactly comics is.
To begin with, I really do like the idea of reading a comic about comics. I think it's a great idea and it's very well executed. As I was reading the first two chapters, I was surprised at how many examples there were of art in recent (and ancient, in some cases) history that are variations of "sequential visual art" and thus the foundations of modern comics. I'd never even thought about it before and it was hard to believe how many different kinds there were. I also love all the discussion about how our human brains automatically interpret certain images in a specific way, how we see others constantly but we identify ourselves when we look at cartoons, and how inanimate objects automatically becomes extensions of our bodies. The pyramid of styles was very interesting too as a way to conceptualize and almost graph or "place" a specific art style in comics. In Comic Book Nation , I enjoyed reading about the evolution of early comics from "funnies...
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