Day 21: McMCLOUD CHAP 5 AND 6 RESPONSE

Amongst other topics, the focus of these two chapters is to uncover how comics go about representing emotional qualities, tones that are otherwise "unseen" (to take the unseen, and make it visible), the differences in how lines portray meaning, as well as reveal how words play in integral part in the clarity of portrayal. I thought One of the most interesting points made was in chapter five, when the author, Scott McCloud, talks about how the emotional, or rather tonal representation stems from language, which in turn stems from "the primordial stuff from which a formalized language can evolve" (127). This struck me as interesting for a couple reasons. Most predominantly, I like to think of language as stemming from ideas that have been with us forever, with roots deeper than those of the words themselves. This idea captures this notion, suggesting that how we represent things is rooted in what has led to the language itself, a cool way to think about representation and its depths of universal communication.