Scott McCloud Article

I found the Scott McCloud article very interesting. Being very interested in comics when I was younger, and now doing a bit of designing myself I was really interested to see comics broken down into such simple, common components. I feel like comics are something everyone reads and knows a fair amount about because of how widespread comics are in our newspapers, but many of the things, such as time and motion, that were discussed in the article I had never thought of. Like he said I feel like the passage of time and the understanding of motion within comics is very intuitive. I've never had to have anyone explain to me how time was working in a comic. When reading the article the first thought I had about this intuitiveness was that it was similar to the willing suspension of disbelief, in that the reader of a comic must simply see the story as it is presented and use their mind to fill in the small holes left between panels. I was also very intrigued by the idea that photography could have made it difficult for us to see a single image as anything other than an instant in time. In thinking about it I did have a hard time thinking of some, if any, photographs or paintings that I didn't see an a single moment in time. This made me think a bit more about the idea of the comic using the suspension of disbelief, and this may be because of the inherent narrative in comics and the viewer looking past normal conventions to find this story.