McCloud- Comics and the Senses

Wiki: Comics is most obviously a visual medium. In what ways do other senses participate in reading comics?

Scott McCloud explains brilliantly the way we hear comics. Just as our ideas of the actions in a comic can transfer from panel to panel, we also develop ideas about the way a scene sounds. Sometimes we are guided by the author through use of onomatopoeia (thwap!). The texture of lines also helps to convey sound. Other times, the reader mentally creates sounds.

Debord's Spectacles through Jon and Kate

Guy Debord: "The images detached from every aspect of life merge into a common stream in which the unity of that life can no longer be recovered. Fragmented views of reality regroup themselves into a new unity as a separate pseudoworld that can only be looked at. The specialization of images of the world evolves into a world of autonomized images where even the deceivers are deceived. The spectacle is a concrete inversion of life, an autonomous movement of the nonliving."

In this aphorism, Debord discusses the break that happens when images are taken from a spectacle. He explains that "detached images" create views of reality which are fragmented, incomplete, no longer representative of the actual events of the spectacle.