Making Sense-"Setting the Record Straight"

McCloud uses a unique method in his genealogy. He uses a comic form style to support his belief in comics. He points out that drawings used to be the way communication was done because there wasn’t a printing press. However, drawings as a way of communicating didn’t disappear when the printing press was invented. People looked down upon comics though as the years have passed. It has a stereotype attached to it which is difficult to shed. He uses the textbook definition as his way to point this out and it states, “Juxtaposed pictorial and other images in a deliberate sequence.” Today, people automatically associate comics with superheroes and things of that nature. This doesn’t have to be the case. This is McCloud’s point by writing this essay in comic form. A comic can say whatever the author wants it to say. He illustrates this in pictorial and verbal communication through this essay. Through this, he is very effective in driving across his point.