Comic Book Chapters 1-4

In response to Scott McCloud's book Understanding Comics I think that "real" literature is something that someone took the time to write. I believe that literature can be anything that is written down, painted, colored, etc. Someone took the time to put their idea down on a surface of some soft and so therefore I consider it to be literature.

The only knowledge that i have about visual texts is from comic books that I have seen, the Sunday morning funnies and from this book. Until after reading this book I never really considered comics to be a way of expressing literature, but after reading all that i have read I do consider comics as a form a literature. A very helpful one if that! Many children do not always like to read therefore it is important for them to still be able to receive all the knowledge that is written down and I believe that comics can be a good way to do so.

When I first starting reading this book I was like what in the world am i going to learn from a comic book and why did my teacher decide to assign this book for homework. But after reading a few pages I started learning things that I never knew before. So far I am very glad that we were assigned to read this book because I think that it can help me be a better teacher. Instead of just assigning my students boring books to read a comic book might be just the perfect thing to mix it up a little bit from our everyday routine. One thing that kind of got on my nerves though was how time consuming reading this book actually is. Not only do you need to read the words for understanding you also have to look at all the pictures. It is difficult to read and look at the pitcutes in a detailed way fast, so it did take some time to read and understand for clarity!