So, just for the record are we done with Scott McCloud and understanding his comics? I know my following post isn't on the material, persay, but it is on images, and isn't that a large part of comic books? I decided to look up a picture of the "real" Scott McCloud, and I think he was pretty generous in the way he drew himself for our image. I realize that he was very minimal on the details of the drawing of himself, but it still wasn't at all how I would have pictured him. That's kinda the issue I have with comic books. I don't like how they give the pictures to you, I want to imagienthem for myself. It's kinda like when you see a movie after you read the book. The characters and the scenes and landscape aren't at all how yoiu imagine them, so it's kind of a let down. I understand that images and pictures are what makes comics unique from other forms of literature, but I enjoy the freedom of imagining things for myself.
P.S. I also found this image of Alan Moore who wrote "Watchmen." Doesn't he look like Charles Manson, the serial killer?.....lol
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Um, that's McCloud now. I saw him speak here last year and he looked like that. If you read his more recent books (which are kind of boring re-hashes of Understanding Comics) he gives himself white hair and more of a gut. Remember, Understanding Comics was written 15 years ago.
And yeah, Alan Moore looks like Charles Manson. It's creepy.
You should have seen Moore's wedding suit - it was Munsters-ish.
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