Week 2 - Understanding Comics

I really liked when he talked about breaking down the process of comics into the list of 6 steps. Purpose, Form, Idiom, Structure, Craft, Surface. This resonated with me because in a way I felt as though most of what he was saying about these steps were true. Scott McCloud visualized these steps as an apple with Surface being the outside of an apple. Most of these days every chooses what has the best surface and then ends up getting disappointed because there's just a hollow center(no Craft, Structure, Idiom, Form, Purpose). I agree with this idea 100% and believe that it applies to lots of different things in life.

Then Scott goes on to talk about how a younger, newer, inexperienced artist who likes comics will go and start making one but only concentrate on the Surface. He does not have the other 5 important parts of the comic. This I found interesting because it seemed as though it was explaining most of our generation and how when we get excited about something we only proceed to do this thing at surface level and then quickly lose interest and move on to the next thing. There example was a guy who did a comic and took it to professional at a comic con and gets his work torn apart because he did not know how to make a comic with every step. After he gets his harsh critique he forgets everything and then moves on. I think this speaks to the ADHD of the world and that we all have short attention spans nowadays.