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by Scott McCloud

  The word balloon attempts to depict sound or tone in a strictly visual medium.  Variations in balloon shape and the symbols that go inside the balloon are constantly being invented or appropriated. Word Balloon

  The idea that a picture can evoke an emotional or sensual response in the viewer is vital to the art of comics. Can Emotion Be Made Visible?

 Pictures in Sequence

Establishing shot Long Shot Medium shot

  This phenomenon of observing the parts but perceiving the whole has a name: closure. Closure

Time Frames

Transitions and Time

 Polyptych: time and space merge

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