Comics Response chs 5 and 6

In chapter five, I felt that the main idea the author was trying to make was to show us how emotions are portrayed in comics. The author first starts out talking about how lines and drawing can express emotion. A single line can tell you the feeling whether it is happy or sad. I have seen this before and I always think that a line going up and down seems like an adrenaline rush feeling because it is falling down.  Also a curvy line seems like an exciting feeling because it looks like a roller coaster ride. The author also talks about how we can automatically guess what certain same symbols mean when they are located in different environments. An example would be of the wavy lines that portray smoke or a smell. Even though both are the same, we can tell them apart. He also mentions how backgrounds can set the emotion. Every time I look at pictures, I always pay attention to the background to see what the mood is and in most cases, it can tell me the emotion just by looking at the background. For example, a bright, colorful background indicates happiness, while a dark and gloomy one indicates fear, sadness, and depression. The author talks about the invention of word bubbles and how they have transformed over time. Word bubbles can tell you what is happening in the picture without taking much space.          In chapter six, the main point was to show us how words and pictures play an important role in comics. The author begins by talking about how words and pictures were seen a different ideas in the early times. This is easily understood because I remember from history class that most ancient artifacts were drawings with no words on there and we had to figure out what was happening in the pictures. The author mentioned how it was later figure that both words and pictures needed to be part of the same comic of drawing. This is because people were getting confused when trying to figure out what a drawing was actually saying. It needed to say what it represented. I find this to be true because there are some drawings where im completely lost and I some books too where I need a drawing so I can get a clear drawing in my mind. The author also talks about different word/picture categories and how the most commonly used one is Inter-Dependent which is that both words and pictures say the same thing. Overall this chapter showed us that we need words to show us what the picture is trying to say or else we are going to be confused and vise versa.