Understanding Comics Chapters Four and Six
Preparation Sheet
WRIT 1506
Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics
Chapters Four and Six
1. What is a “panel”? If understanding comics constitutes a “literacy,” explain the significance of the panel in this literacy, using examples from McCloud.
2. How do the dimensions of space and time relate in the literacy of comics? What roles does language (or its absence) play in this unique space/time relationship?
Explain at least one example from McCloud’s Chapter Four.
3. In Chapter Six, McCloud tells the story of word/image combinations in Western culture through the centuries. What is the plot of this story? What is McCloud’s agenda or argument in telling this story?
Preparation Sheet
WRIT 1506
Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics
Chapters Four and Six
1. What is a “panel”? If understanding comics constitutes a “literacy,” explain the significance of the panel in this literacy, using examples from McCloud.
2. How do the dimensions of space and time relate in the literacy of comics? What roles does language (or its absence) play in this unique space/time relationship?
Explain at least one example from McCloud’s Chapter Four.
3. In Chapter Six, McCloud tells the story of word/image combinations in Western culture through the centuries. What is the plot of this story? What is McCloud’s agenda or argument in telling this story?
