ENG 2118 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Western Comics, Bitch Planet, Kate Beaton

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Peirce defined a sign as a stimulus pattern (it may be visual, auditory, or other) that conveys a meaning. He asserted that the difference between types of signs is in how the meaning happens to be attached to (or associated with) them. Pierce broke down signs down into 3 basic types. The icon is the simplest since it is a pattern that physically resembles what it. Comics are most often characterized by a visual art style called cartooning, which at its most basic uses simple line-work to produce iconic characters of varying levels of abstraction. Mccloud stresses what he calls (cid:498)amplification through simplification(cid:499) (cid:523)(cid:885)(cid:882)- (cid:498)readable(cid:499) by allowing an icon to be recognized from one panel to the next; (cid:498)since cartoons already exist as concepts for the reader, they tend to flow. He also argues that a certain level of abstraction is necessary to make comics.

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