Reading 1

The Vocabulary of Comics

I found the beginning of this comic to be really amusing and the rest of the comic was very interesting. It gave me a new way of thinking about everything I see. It's really interesting how we interpret cartoons as representing real things in our world. I learned about icons and that the things we see in cartoons are not what the really are, but are icons: images that represent people, places, things or ideas.

I like the idea of breaking images down into their simplest form. It's cool that a face can get simpler than 2 dots and 2 lines by showing it with letters as "F A C E".

I look forward to discussing this comic in class so I can better understand all of the ideas the character was trying to convey to us.