Blogs St. McCloud
After reading the text, watching his lecture, and looking at his blogs Scott McCloud has brought upon many interesting ideas to me. In the text, lecture, and blogs he always tries to prove his point about comics. I feel like looking at all of these examples he is almost trying too hard to get his point across. Its neat to also here his side of the story and how he became interested in comics through his video. He decided he wanted to do comics at the age of fourteen, and it is a different type of job but he loved comics. I think a key reason in why he liked it so much was because senses meant a lot to him. His father is blind, and Scott states that a comic uses all the senses. My dad is a comic buff and I never understood why he would collect them and read them. But reading this book has helped me to understand why comics are, the way they are. Yes, its not like any other type of literature or art but it is an art form. Just like the discussion we were having in class about “what is art”? Art is considered different to everyone, but its still art. But I think that Scott McCloud and every other comic author feels like they have to prove their point so much because comics, just like video games isnt considered an art to most people. He wrote in one of his blog about the discussion debating whether video games are considered to be an art form. He says that video games are creatively contributed by the user, not just the maker of the video game. I agree with him when he says that “abdicating authorship” with video games doesnt make it seem like an art form. I like the quote he uses though by Marcel Duchamp, “I have come to the personal conclusion that while all artists are not chess players, all chess players are artists.”
I have thought a lot about this quote and I feel its saying that all “recognized” artists are not chess players, meaning that the chess players could