Understanding Comics Chaper 2 Reflection

This chapter opened my eyes to what I see when I look at drawings and comics. It is completely true that when you look at things like comics you want to identify yourself with it and feel like a part of it. I thought it was really interesting when the author broke down the picture of the face until all it was was a circle with two dots and a line in it, and you could still make it out as a face, in fact you couldn't not see it as a face. The same thing occurred when he drew the shapes on page 32 and put dots in them. I instantly could not see them as anything other than faces. It's crazy how our mind is able to do that, how it can take something so unrealistic and make it seem real. I also like on page 35 and 36 how the author showed how we see other people when we are talking to them and how we think we look in our minds. It was really true. You never can get a good detailed image of yourself when your thinking of it, but when your looking at someone, you can see every little detail of their face. I think this is why we can identify with such unrealistic shapes as faces, because there are times when the only way we can see ourselves in our mind is like that.