After reading the two McCloud pieces, how do you think McCloud views comics as visually rhetorical?
As a rhetorical tool, using visuals and images to convey a message is very successful after reading McCloud comic piece. McCloud makes the point and views comics as a great tool to communicate valid information. As reading the comic piece I personally found it a lot easier to understand each individual point McCloud was making. The form of comics separates each point into its own enclosed area with no other distractions, as when reading the sentence before and after can easily overwhelm the reader. Usually I need to highlight individual sentences just to understand a single point the author is trying to make. Although using visuals to send a message doesn’t necessarily work successfully for everyone. If someone uses too many visuals with too many details it makes it difficult for the audience to unwrap and understand clearly. The visual tool is something that needs to be used to delicate balance. The text and the visual need to work together as a partner to show and explain in two different ways the point being conveyed. I believe using visuals and images in a scholarly way is a rising tool because of the technology and options we have in making a perfect visual for a message. Text is becoming so outdated and old school that many people don’t want to gravitate towards it. Its easier, faster, and more satisfying to view something to understand rather than reading through a chunk of text. We are slowly becoming addicted to the highest appealing image out there.
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