The "Understanding Comics" chapter 2 reading was super long. I mean, I liked the beginning, the part about the pipe not being a pipe but a photo copy of a drawing of a painting of a pipe just blew my mind. The part I understood the most was on page 7 of chapter 2 where he said that the more cartoony a face is, the more people is could represent. this makes sense because the less defining features a face has, the more it looks like an average face. Simple enough. But in all honesty, I felt like I was reading the same page over and over. It just kept explaining in further detail how the more iconic something is with the less detail it has. I felt like I understood the concept early on but the comic just kept giving more and more diagrams and examples that were making me impatient. As far as the concept though, it was very useful information.
I much more enjoyed chapter 5, I felt like new ideas were being brought to the table that I probably would not have thought of on my own. Like, when making a comic (if I ever did so), I would not have thought that I had so many factors to work with to convey emotion, such as borders and backgrounds. Knowing this now will make my imaginary future comics much more filled with emotion.
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