UNDERSTANDING COMICS CHAPTER 2

This past week I had actually had a conversation about something that was brought up in chapter 2. I have to say I laughed because I thought that I was a little crazy for thinking about it. I always thought it was funny how we are such self-centered people always starring at ourselves in the mirror, wearing pounds of makeup and gallons of gel in our hair for other people to see us. The only thing that should really matter is how we ourselves and we feel about ourselves, except for the fact that as soon as you step away from that mirror, you can't see yourself and what you look like for the rest of the day. McCloud brings up these exact two points throughout the chapter. He says first off that we are a self-centered society and we see our image in almost everything and we "make the world over in our image." Then he talks about the fact that we never actually see our face but we always have a "constant awareness of his or her own face." Yet this image is not a full image but just a sketch of what we look like because we don't see our own face 24/7. I love how McCloud writes not only about the ideas and concepts of cartooning, but also about real life situations and they apply to the cartoons, vice versa.