Comments on: Comics and happy problem solving

By: alan

alan — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:59:37 +0000

Not a big comic reader … unless I am given one by a journal to review … and yes occasionally … just was fascinated with the book. In particular the way with minimal strokes on the page a comic artist can create emotion, sense of movement, etc.

… and silly ideas – I should do this as part of the MRes

By: charlene

charlene — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 01:21:59 +0000

oooh, are you a comic reader or was that just a random book you chose to read? i have “understanding comics” on my shelf, just not read it yet.

btw, wish we’d done silly ideas.

By: fabian

fabian — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 15:35:29 +0000

Hi Alan,

I just stumbled upon your blog. One thing regarding Scott McCloud: Actually, he recently released a third book, “Making Comics” – it’s fantastic, just like the first one (I didn’t like the second one so much, though). It’s also nice that he ‘updated’ himself in the book by drawing ‘Scott’ a bit fatter. The third one is strongly about the narrative, I remember one chapter called “Stories for Humans”, very nice!

Cheers!
Fabian

By: alan

alan — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 08:27:45 +0000

… and when I do of course tell them it was your idea

By: Nele Van den Ende

Nele Van den Ende — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:27:06 +0000

I remember that book! The Problem Solving one, that is. I believe it was Bob Spence who made us go through it, and report back on chapters. The chapter I was given as rather difficult and as I remember, showed that all the current research didn’t agree on anything quite yet. More research needed, and all that…
Maybe next year you can have half of the USIs do the muscle-moving and the other half not and compare what happens?