Comic to me, before American Graphic Media class was just a book that I read just for fun and did not pay a lot of attention to those messages author trying to give to readers, and all those technique of using time, emotion, many other skills in comics. Also comic has about six steps, idea,purpose, from idiom, structure, craft and surface. Also, how comics are changing throughout years as our society changes. It is some sort of mirror image of society. I could learn from the comics from few decades ago, and got some idea of how the society was like then. Now when I read comics, I do not just read it for fun and forget the message. Now I look for the message and the skills that author used in comics, such as emotional content, and use of time. There are so much technique been using on comics that most people did not notice or cared about. Comics also often deal and talk about the big issues on our society. Political issues are often used in comics and other problems like sexual identities and economy.
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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