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Why are comics and poems alike? Visual input p1
<<The inclination toward wanting to connect the verbal and visual structure is totally understandable. One of the reasons is natural. Visual data has three distinctive and individual levels: the visual input which consists of myriad symbol systems; the representational visual material we recognize in the environment and can replicate in drawing, painting, sculpture, and film; and the abstract understructure, the form of everything we see, whether natural or composed for intended effects>> A primer of visual literacy. 1973, MIT press. Donis A. Dondis. Pag. 27-28. Op cit. SENSITIVE A poem is a close cousin to comic based on the sole fact that both, start by being an input. Visual or not, both require a sensorial perception that…
