scott mc cloud's comic vision

•Scott McCloud’s Comic Vision

•Visual iconography

•The visual arrangement of time

•The visual arrangement of time

•The visual arrangement of time

•The dialectic of the visible and the invisible

• repetition

• symbolism

• context creation

• analysis

• irony

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

the five strategies of juxtaposition

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

• the strategy of repetition:Juxtaposing words and imagery that “say” the same thing.

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

• the strategy of repetition:Juxtaposing words and imagery that “say” the same thing.

“Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.”

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

• the strategy of repetition:Juxtaposing words and imagery that “say” the same thing.

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

“My father. . . .”

• the strategy of repetition:Juxtaposing words and imagery that “say” the same thing.

“My father. . . .”“Yes, the same eclipse as in the song by Carly Simon. . . .”

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

• the strategy of repetition:Juxtaposing words and imagery that “say” the same thing.

“A friend introduced me to comic books. . . .”

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

“My father. . . .”“Yes, the same eclipse as in the song by Carly Simon. . . .”

• the strategy of repetition:Juxtaposing words and imagery that “say” the same thing.

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

• Repetition as exemplificationWhen the image is a specific instance of the general category described by the word (or vice versa).

Image is a specific instance of the general category described by the word (or vice versa).

“blind”

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

• Repetition as exemplificationWhen the image is a specific instance of the general category described by the word (or vice versa).

Image is a specific instance of the general category described by the word (or vice versa).

“blind” “genius”

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

• Repetition as exemplificationWhen the image is a specific instance of the general category described by the word (or vice versa).

Image is a specific instance of the general category described by the word (or vice versa).

“blind” “genius”“militaristic”

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

• Repetition as exemplificationWhen the image is a specific instance of the general category described by the word (or vice versa).

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

• the strategy of symbolism:When imagery provides metaphor for words, or words for

imagery.

“kinds of vision”

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

• the strategy of symbolism:When imagery provides metaphor for words, or words for

imagery.

“kinds of vision” features of computer comics

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

• the strategy of symbolism:When imagery provides metaphor for words, or words for

imagery.

“kinds of vision” features of computer comics

“the classic McLuhan-esque mistake of appropriating the shape of the old

technology as the content of the new

technology”•Strategies of Juxtaposition

• the strategy of symbolism:When imagery provides metaphor for words, or words for

imagery.

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

• the strategy of context creation:When the imagery situates the words in space, time, or conceptually

(or vice versa).

Lexington, MA

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

• the strategy of context creation:When the imagery situates the words in space, time, or conceptually

(or vice versa).

Lexington, MA normal home life

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

• the strategy of context creation:When the imagery situates the words in space, time, or conceptually

(or vice versa).

Lexington, MA normal home life

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

“Charles Babbage, and his steam-

driven computers that were never

built.”

• the strategy of context creation:When the imagery situates the words in space, time, or conceptually

(or vice versa).

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

• the strategy of analysis:When the imagery reveals the underlying logic of the words, or

words that of imagery.

family relationship

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

• the strategy of analysis:When the imagery reveals the underlying logic of the words, or

words that of imagery.

family relationship concept of visual abstraction

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

• the strategy of analysis:When the imagery reveals the underlying logic of the words, or

words that of imagery.

family relationship concept of visual abstraction

types of comic art

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

• the strategy of analysis:When the imagery reveals the underlying logic of the words, or

words that of imagery.

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

• the strategy of irony:When words and imagery are juxtaposed in a

deliberately surprising, counterintuitive, thought-provoking way.

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

“Yeah, ha ha “

• the strategy of irony:When words and imagery are juxtaposed in a

deliberately surprising, counterintuitive, thought-provoking way.

the fine arts

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

“Yeah, ha ha “

• the strategy of irony:When words and imagery are juxtaposed in a

deliberately surprising, counterintuitive, thought-provoking way.

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

Route 128

• the strategy of irony:When words and imagery are juxtaposed in a

deliberately surprising, counterintuitive, thought-provoking way.

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

Queen’s GambitRoute 128

• the strategy of irony:When words and imagery are juxtaposed in a

deliberately surprising, counterintuitive, thought-provoking way.

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

Queen’s GambitRoute 128 Gladys Knight and the Pips

• the strategy of irony:When words and imagery are juxtaposed in a

deliberately surprising, counterintuitive, thought-provoking way.

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

Gladys Knight and the Pips

Midnight

Route 128 Queen’s Gambit

• the strategy of irony:When words and imagery are juxtaposed in a

deliberately surprising, counterintuitive, thought-provoking way.

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

Gladys Knight and the Pips

Midnight

Train

Route 128 Queen’s Gambit

• the strategy of irony:When words and imagery are juxtaposed in a

deliberately surprising, counterintuitive, thought-provoking way.

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

Gladys Knight and the Pips

Midnight

TrainGeorgia

Route 128 Queen’s Gambit

• the strategy of irony:When words and imagery are juxtaposed in a

deliberately surprising, counterintuitive, thought-provoking way.

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

Gladys Knight and the Pips

Midnight

TrainGeorgiaDad’s easy chair

Route 128 Queen’s Gambit

• the strategy of irony:When words and imagery are juxtaposed in a

deliberately surprising, counterintuitive, thought-provoking way.

• repetition

• symbolism

• context creation

• analysis

• irony

•Strategies of Juxtaposition

the five strategies

A juxtaposition of words and images that “say” the same thing.

When imagery provides metaphor for words, or words for imagery.

When imagery situates words in space, time, or conceptually (or vice versa).

When imagery reveals the underlying logic of words, or words that of imagery.

When words and imagery are juxtaposed in a deliberately surprising, counterintuitive, thought-provoking way.