Krugg chap 7

:( Clearly, this reading post is incomplete. For now!

McCloud

I read Understanding Comics already and, unfortunately, could only link this reading to my personal experiences. Which I suppose isn't unfortunate - it means I've gathered something from both the reading and the class I took - but I couldn't relate it to anything new. So I didn't.

Form and function are debates that have continued on in my mind since Dr. Doran first hammered the two parallels into me. When an artist draws, can it be read? When it a comic draws, is the picture the story or are the words around it? 

The same can be said for internet sites. What is the meaning of the website in relation to the content? What determines meaning? The pictures used? the words? both?

Our interpretation of closure is also something that reminded me a little of my comics course. When we finished the story, closure never really happened in the graphic novels we read. There were cliffhangers or resonating ideas or unstable topics that haven't really been fully explored. Closure, to me, isn't as important as fully understanding the meaning behind what we're supposed to be interpreting- which is something I'll think about in my website. Do all of the elements fit together? Will someone navigate away from my site with some understanding of what I intend to convey?