This is why in business flowcharts are better than a word document to explain the way to do a job.Think about modern instructions for a device. We have moved away from a mostly word based document to pictures.
Reading manga and comics really is the only thing that kept me reading on a regular basis growing up. I struggled with a learning disability and attention disorder that wouldn't be diagnosed until I got into university, (as well as dyslexia). Having pictures to assist really helped me focus and enjoy reading.
I remember having a ELA teacher in 5th grade and she said "comics don't make you smart" and 3 years later it came to my head and I was thinking "so your telling me comics don't make you smart even though it's still a book with pictures on every page and words" um.....yeah right.
+Ezzy J Some of us aren't gifted with the imagination and memory of a visual artist. Also thorough descriptions with words are slow and tedious compared to pictures. What was that saying that a picture is worth 1000 words? Although books are probably better at communicating other senses than comics. I personally can only imagine very vague blobs that quickly fizzle into nothingness from lack of short term memory. Practice doesn't help much. Yet I can answer questions about how rotated 3D diagrams would end up based on these quick blob approximations.
My parents always bought me any comics I wanted as a kid back in the 60's. They encouraged me to read anything that interested me. As I grew, my literary interests included Popular Mechanics, National Geographic, Popular Science, always curious about how things worked. Comics paved the way.
He's spot on right in what he's saying. When a comic has been written well (a rarity perhaps?) It makes our brains read two things simultaneously. Narrative boxes and images within the same frame can be wildly different in meaning and context, often converge in meaning and depart again promptly. If the author and artist (quite often the same person; notably Mr. Daniel Clowes) comics can yield a deeply satisfying form of reading. We must also consider the minimalist, almost Haiku like, nature of the inclusion of words set into panels and frames. The author has to be quite economical with the words he chooses. It's a simple requisite of their art that they cannot say too much.
I fondly remember sitting in my grandparent's house voraciously reading my uncle's Sad Sack comics (still have dozens of them) back in the '70s when I was a wee lad. These comics gave me quite the head start going into my first year of school.
Thank you - Gene Luen Yang, more people should look into this thoughts. It's important to have the ability to go as fast or slow as the person in question needs.
I like the liner notes at the top. My teachers were narrow minded and stupid to disdain and even forbid comic books. Looking back they were afraid of those who would disturb the status quo.
Comics about superheroes who exemplify hard right wing ideology in their appearance, persona, and attitude, yet choose to fight for democracy and the little man against their own self interest. Comics have always been subversive to traditional American values and ideals. Look at Judge Dredd and the way the satire was taken at face value, with people loving it. If more comics were legitimate works that explored heroics and masculinity without the need to subvert it down to a sanitized level, then boys might still grow up to be men. But the state of them now and in the past has been anything but that. Minus the punisher as a character an judge dredd to a certain extent, what isn't left wing subversion?
I Want To share my real life experience ( I read comics from child when i began to learn Hindi language comics are in Hindi so .. i interested in cartoon arts .. i dint knew how to read perfectly nor I understand Hindi as well as ... but slowly my interest pick me up I read comics every day when I get free time And After that, I never weak in Hindi even I don't interested in Hindi subject I get above 70 marks out or 100 with out any preparation This is my real life experience " language give us wide thinking power so not so important what is in the book its matter only how WE understand the meaning and how we explains It so " ) I prefer comics first after than novel .. I am learning Eng by comics than I go to Novel ... Don't laugh I just shared my story .... Amen
vindicated! I tole my mommy that I was being exposed to and learning about science, government, socialization and cutting edge technologies as well as the religions of the world.
Svent Istvan, you should reconsider that. I assume English is not your first language, as your name seems Nordic and your written language is twisted and strained. Comic books are illustrated literature. Nothing more or less. If you approached the medium from that point of view, maybe you could see it as similar to the work of Lewis Carroll. Happy reading!:)
Cool :] .. but there are numerous different levels and dimensions to that one .. the Real important message IS ... 'slippingly multi-re-contextualising' / 'Perciever Empowerment'.
I find I'm awfully inefficient and inattentive at reading comics. I focus on the words and skim over the pictures. If there's no "Lex punches superman" caption, purportedly for the mentally deficient, I might even miss it happening. I even read speech bubbles in the wrong order sometimes. (Doesn't help that more or less half my comics are supposed to be read in right-to-left order of course... "Normal" [for me] being left-to-right...) I'm not a picture-explorer, I'm a mass-consumer. I speed-read at 400%, listen to audiobooks at 300% tempo, watch videos at 200% playback speed. (Movies at 150%) With full comprehension, mind you. (I'm usually the one explaining in-jokes, twists, character motives, and easy to miss references.) As for how fast I read comics? Maybe 50% of what could be considered normal... Why could this be?
My birthday is coming up, it's really hard to host a party for 7 billion people without any resources, I mean I could use magic but it might terrify some of you! you do know God is a DJ...
This is why in business flowcharts are better than a word document to explain the way to do a job.Think about modern instructions for a device. We have moved away from a mostly word based document to pictures.
Reading manga and comics really is the only thing that kept me reading on a regular basis growing up. I struggled with a learning disability and attention disorder that wouldn't be diagnosed until I got into university, (as well as dyslexia). Having pictures to assist really helped me focus and enjoy reading.
I remember having a ELA teacher in 5th grade and she said "comics don't make you smart" and 3 years later it came to my head and I was thinking "so your telling me comics don't make you smart even though it's still a book with pictures on every page and words" um.....yeah right.
Let's petition Big Think to make this guy a regular! Awesome talk!
yOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS.
This was A WHOLE lot of nothing.
You can control the speed with a book.
J- oker he said visual storytelling
angel you can create a picture in your mind with a book though
+Ezzy J Some of us aren't gifted with the imagination and memory of a visual artist. Also thorough descriptions with words are slow and tedious compared to pictures. What was that saying that a picture is worth 1000 words? Although books are probably better at communicating other senses than comics.
I personally can only imagine very vague blobs that quickly fizzle into nothingness from lack of short term memory. Practice doesn't help much. Yet I can answer questions about how rotated 3D diagrams would end up based on these quick blob approximations.
Jynx C. I was just trying to make a joke 😢
My parents always bought me any comics I wanted as a kid back in the 60's. They encouraged me to read anything that interested me. As I grew, my literary interests included Popular Mechanics, National Geographic, Popular Science, always curious about how things worked. Comics paved the way.
Imagine being a kid in the 60’s and spending free time on reading comic books! Literally my dream❤️
He's spot on right in what he's saying. When a comic has been written well (a rarity perhaps?) It makes our brains read two things simultaneously. Narrative boxes and images within the same frame can be wildly different in meaning and context, often converge in meaning and depart again promptly. If the author and artist (quite often the same person; notably Mr. Daniel Clowes) comics can yield a deeply satisfying form of reading.
We must also consider the minimalist, almost Haiku like, nature of the inclusion of words set into panels and frames. The author has to be quite economical with the words he chooses. It's a simple requisite of their art that they cannot say too much.
Stephen Faherty well put.
My youngest son struggles with reading. He really loves comic books because it allows him to enjoy reading on his own without my help.
Great video!
Words and pictures are yin and yang
I fondly remember sitting in my grandparent's house voraciously reading my uncle's Sad Sack comics (still have dozens of them) back in the '70s when I was a wee lad. These comics gave me quite the head start going into my first year of school.
Thank you - Gene Luen Yang, more people should look into this thoughts.
It's important to have the ability to go as fast or slow as the person in question needs.
Just found some age-appropriate comics to use in my kindergarten classroom. I am excited about this!
Visual learning and entertainment tends to work best.
Infotainment
I like the liner notes at the top. My teachers were narrow minded and stupid to disdain and even forbid comic books. Looking back they were afraid of those who would disturb the status quo.
Comics about superheroes who exemplify hard right wing ideology in their appearance, persona, and attitude, yet choose to fight for democracy and the little man against their own self interest. Comics have always been subversive to traditional American values and ideals. Look at Judge Dredd and the way the satire was taken at face value, with people loving it. If more comics were legitimate works that explored heroics and masculinity without the need to subvert it down to a sanitized level, then boys might still grow up to be men. But the state of them now and in the past has been anything but that. Minus the punisher as a character an judge dredd to a certain extent, what isn't left wing subversion?
Never thought of this. Clever
My opinion I think people who have trouble with reading should read comics so that way they can improve reading skills.
Reading all books makes you smart!
cool topic!
I Want To share my real life experience ( I read comics from child when i began to learn Hindi language comics are in Hindi so .. i interested in cartoon arts .. i dint knew how to read perfectly nor I understand Hindi as well as ... but slowly my interest pick me up I read comics every day when I get free time And After that, I never weak in Hindi even I don't interested in Hindi subject I get above 70 marks out or 100 with out any preparation This is my real life experience " language give us wide thinking power so not so important what is in the book its matter only how WE understand the meaning and how we explains It so " ) I prefer comics first after than novel .. I am learning Eng by comics than I go to Novel ... Don't laugh I just shared my story .... Amen
Books without picture or one or two picture are supposed to make people more smarter...actually it should be blend of comic books and regular books...
Yeah, but am addicted to comics 😶
Awesome 👍
Im a fan of Neil Gaiman's Sandman myself!
vindicated! I tole my mommy that I was being exposed to and learning about science, government, socialization and cutting edge technologies as well as the religions of the world.
Comics are literary not a deficiency in your shelf.
Hi Sir,can you please discuss transformational tales and pourguoi tales.
Thank You.
Now I want to read a lot of comics
The only comics that I read is from Webtoon.
Anyone else?
I only read webtoom and manga
I use my imagination for form pictures when reading my ten + books at any one stage....No comic book guy here!
Svent Istvan, you should reconsider that. I assume English is not your first language, as your name seems Nordic and your written language is twisted and strained.
Comic books are illustrated literature. Nothing more or less. If you approached the medium from that point of view, maybe you could see it as similar to the work of Lewis Carroll.
Happy reading!:)
MY real name is Anglo Saxon........with a very boring surname of Smith....so I changed it hence !
One suggestion is an idea for a blockchained comic learning-entertainment platform.
Cool :] .. but there are numerous different levels and dimensions to that one .. the Real important message IS ...
'slippingly multi-re-contextualising' / 'Perciever Empowerment'.
I find I'm awfully inefficient and inattentive at reading comics. I focus on the words and skim over the pictures. If there's no "Lex punches superman" caption, purportedly for the mentally deficient, I might even miss it happening. I even read speech bubbles in the wrong order sometimes. (Doesn't help that more or less half my comics are supposed to be read in right-to-left order of course... "Normal" [for me] being left-to-right...) I'm not a picture-explorer, I'm a mass-consumer. I speed-read at 400%, listen to audiobooks at 300% tempo, watch videos at 200% playback speed. (Movies at 150%) With full comprehension, mind you. (I'm usually the one explaining in-jokes, twists, character motives, and easy to miss references.) As for how fast I read comics? Maybe 50% of what could be considered normal... Why could this be?
Big agree.
it does
I KNEW IT!
context
UA-cam has a setting to play a video faster or slower, up to 2x or down to 0.25x.
Check out the channel "Strip Panel Naked" if you're curious how comics work. There's so much potential in the medium
Comics are a step up from Dr. Seuss books. It's the same premise but a little more mature.
I guess the exception would be SJW comics where the effect would be the reverse.
BE A SOYBOY! CONSUME CONSUME CONSUME. I heard lifting weights, boxing, and not acting infantile also makes you smarter as an adult. Crazy, I know.
My birthday is coming up, it's really hard to host a party for 7 billion people without any resources, I mean I could use magic but it might terrify some of you! you do know God is a DJ...
Only if they aren't filled with boring stories that are trying to push a SJW or feminist agenda.