The nature of this read makes it very fun—a simple word for a medium that values simplicity. I think McCloud's take on the movement of time in comics is interesting in the way that it relates to the moving image in film or photographic sequence. Specifically I'm interested in the way that the development of depicting the moving image on paper—and in that matter, depicting time—didn't develop until technology allowed for the recording of the image. At that point, people seemed to fixate on trying to adapt the ways of the new medium to the old medium.
I think the whole discussion is interesting in that it can be argued for not only comics. Time, though possibly less arbitrary in time-based media, can still be manipulated and distorted. A cut could signal a change of minutes or hours, days or months. A century.
It all gets back to the frame.
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