Understanding Comics

CHAPTER 2: The Vocabulary of Comics.

In this chapter, McLeod explains that comics tend to utilize a more simplistic style to aid with reader-identification. People tend to project the image of a human face onto simple shapes, and similarly, this allows people to connect with cartoon characters. More "cartoonish" imagery can influence the focus of the audience as well. Different artists also vary their characters and environments, ranging on the scale of more "iconic" and more "realistic," each creating art with different values in mind.