Ted Talk

I think that McCloud in his ted talk made a lot of good points. He expressed first that comics are broken up into many different types and used for many different genres. He also shows that comics were not started in the 80's about super heros and their enemies, but date back to historical times, with the early Egyptians. The hyroglifics quickly evolve into "comic strips" by the Europeans who added word bubbles and "stage directions". McCloud then goes into details on how once comic pages were applied to the computer, that the computer is no longer seen as a "monitor" rather a "window/viewer" to see how the story line conducts and moves itself to play out the story. McCloud has many great examples and uses lots of images and concepts to get his point across, much like what he does in his comic strip we read in "Reading about Writing."