McCloud Blog Part 2

I chose to do this entry on Chelsee Harris blog post on But No One Ever Noticed the Walrus. Here is the link to Chelsee's blog

http://www.chelseeharris.blogspot.com/

And here is the link to the comic itself

http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/mi/mi-22/mi-22.html

In her blog post, Chelsee discusses the idea of converying emotion. I want to talk about a different concept that is found in this comic, the idea of time frames. As the panels go on, you see the characters doing different things at different times, even though they are in the same panel, you get the idea of movement. Even when people are talking, we know which one to read at what time to keep the timing of the comic right. McCloud uses the example of thinking of a rope going through the comic, saying "Portraying time on a line moving left to right, this puts all the images on the same vertical axis". As young children we are taught to read left to right.

Another movement concept that is addressed in the McCloud book that can be applied to this comic is the idea of sequential movement. McCloud discusses how even a single panel can show movement, and in this comic, in one panel we see the two lovers rushing at each other. This is shown by the papers flying from the man standing off to the side. We can see the rush inside the comic strip from this simple drawing.