MadInkBeard | Derik A Badman

…schemata… are cognitive frameworks for the meaningful organisation of various interrelated concepts based on previous experiences… The schema expresses typical information, not the unique features of a specific thing… There are a lot of basic conditions (schemata) needed to read a comic. A crucial schema to understand a comic is the elliptic and fragmented nature [...]

The more disciplined among us are able to minimize that self-importance in service of the message we feel compelled to communicate; more often, though, an artist’s favorite subject is himself, and the message he ends up communicating is, “Look how clever/skilled/cool I am!”. This is so common in the world of comics as to be [...]