Why are comics and poems alike? Visual input p2

Graham Dunstan Martin and René Magritte were right. This is not a pipe. No image and no set of letters or words are reality itself. To just utter the word “butter” won’t make you any fatter than saying “water”. But were I to eat it and I will have trouble with my grease digestion inability, right?

A picture or a photo won’t do much either… Besides affecting our wish to open the fridge door. Which is unrelated to the image being (relatively) harmless. Or a character gulping down a whole chicken and half a chocolate cake (Oh, they use magic so that much is to be burnt as mana energy) won’t harm how much you go and visit your own fridge or the neighbourhood’s café.  

REALITY REPRESENTATIVE LEVEL

Comic and literature (that means poems too) move in a reality representative level. And both use symbols. Thinking this way I’m about to nag you with the mantra I lived by 24/7 when I was an undergrad student¹.

Design model process²: Problem, reference frame, solution.

• Problem: To tell a story
• Reference frame: Authors are born into societies. The social and cultural environment and the cultural and social environment surrounding an author. As much as I have also suffered male chauvinism; it is not as severe as what the author of “Kim-Jiyoung,1982” has. And she hasn’t been forced to kiss the boyfriend of a girl who couldn’t understand my zero interest in kissing. Different environment is the same to different results.
• Solution: To choose one or the other media. You either draw or become proficient with words. Maybe both,

FROM THERE, COMIC AND POEMS HAVE IN COMMON SILENCE AND VISUAL INPUT, REPRESENTATIONAL LEVEL (SYMBOLS) AND DESIGN PROCESS MODEL applied. Believe it or not. And when I wrote that in Spanish I was as surprised I understand why you must be saying: “This is nonsense³«.

So, what are the basics^[5] in visual communication? Can they be used in poetry?

Enjoy thinking what’s your media like any other activities out there? Pasto kalo.

1. Nein. I’m still an undergrad. No masters, thus of course, no PhDs. ↩︎
2. Simplified. ↩︎
3. Nonsense is my specialty. Unfortunately; I have no idea how to offer falsifying processes to prove whether I’m wrong or not. ↩︎