Tuesday, March 31, 2009

I Know It's Lots of Reading, but...

You have to check this out.

When flipping through comics, don't you ever wonder about the semiotic relationship the words

BANG! ZOOM! ZIP! CRASH! CLICK!

have on the real world. It is distinctively not a sound, but we make it a sound. Pretty interesting, huh? We have to be aware of what the sign means, and how it reacts in the real world for us to be able to recreate it in our own minds within the context of the comic.

Read Cohn's Eye Semiosis essay, it perfectly answers the question you probably have right now, it is a sound or not?

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