1. McCloud Ch. 4
Time Frames

2. Slowing it down…
When it comes to the movement of time inside comics, McCloud notes that it “is infinitely weirder” than simply slowing down or freezing time (94).
Panels can themselves be open to and involved in the movement of time, example:

3. Is this a single moment?

10. Strange Relationship
This “strange relationship” exists, as McCloud notes, “between time as depicted in comics and time as perceived by the reader” (99).
In learning to read comics, the audience or reader is in fact asked to “perceive time spatially, for in the world of comics, time and space are one and the same” (100).
In other words, time passes as not only as we move left to right, up and down panel by panel, but it can pass even as we simply move left to right even within a panel as noted in the example above that McCloud deconstructed.

18. Questions?

19. Practice So, let’s play with time. Take a fresh peace of paper.
Tell a small story of time passing (use stick figures).
Practice using images in panels to demonstrate the passage of time.