Scott McCloud Reading

I agree that McCloud does an excellent job in successfully illustrating his points. He explains, as a medium of art, comics ideas, techniques, capabilities, and so forth while simultaneously displaying examples. I found the article to be informative, clever, and enjoyable.
It never really occurred to me that comics are so involved and interrelated with time. I find that this relationship and the desire to capture time is the main cause of the actual desire to create comics and is definitely solved through 'sequential art'. While the desire to capture time may not be the most obvious reasoning for one to want to create comics I believe that it is goes without saying that the desire exists.
There are obviously other solutions to this desire, anything in the realm of time based media work, like film for instance. Duchamp, as mentioned in the article, was also striving to create this desire through a single static image.
I must admit, it feels silly at times to consider comics fine art, but so do many works at forst observation. I believe that comics fall right in between Duchamp's solution and the film solution, however, both are considered by many to be forms of fine art but comics aren't.
Either way, McCloud's and comics' interaction with time is definitely successful in achieving the portrayal of time through different methods like the inclination of sound and motion.