Re: Comics and Info Design

Serg,

 

I teach information design, and I assign Scott McCloud's "I Can't Stop
Thinking #4."

http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/icst/icst-4/icst-4.html

 

ICST-4 shows students (if they don't already know this) that sequential art
("comics") can be used for serious exposition. (Scott McCloud's wonderful
Understanding Comics and his other books also show this.)

 

ICST-4 (along with his other online comics) also demonstrates some
interesting relationships between medium, genre, and format. When McCloud
moves from paper to the Web, he continues to work in the same genres, but
his formatting changes dramatically. Instead of being confined to little
boxes, McCloud exuberantly spreads his visuals down a very long scrolling
HTML page, and he explores the expressive possibilities of this new format.
It's also interesting that McCloud largely rejects hypertext, one of the key
behaviors available in the Web medium.

 

Dave

 

David K. Farkas, Professor         
Dept. of Technical Communication       
University of Washington 
Seattle, Washington (USA)
[email protected]
http://faculty.washington.edu/farkas <http://faculty.washington.edu/farkas/>

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