Understanding comics quite the enjoyable read; the comic was both enlightening and entertaining. Many of things Scott McCloud mentioned gave me a new way to look out how drawings and words are juxtaposed together, although they serve the same purpose, granted they yield differing results.
I really enjoyed the portion of the comic where he was explaining how simplicity is what brings attracts an audience because of our tendency to project ourselves onto everything we see. Part of the information in this portion felt like information that just sits in the back of the mind, but once it was explained further, it was just eye-opening. One thing I've noticed with social media, for example, is that the stylized, less realistic artists tend to have more followers than those who do incredibly realistic paintings or figure drawings and it felt great to understand that it happens because people just subconsciously relate more to a less detailed, therefore less defining, characters.
Then, when he took it one step further beyond a face being simple two dots and a line and explained that "F A C E" is another way to draw a face, being that writing is a form of art, I felt like I understood the connection between literature and art more -- and better yet, how they can be combined to create something that is truly amazing.
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