Sharing with the Simple Style of Cartoon

In the article "Understanding Comics", the author explained that "The Cartoon is a vacuum" (p.36). According to him, the more the style of the cartoon is a simple such as icons, the more the readers seem to be easy to share with the world view of the cartoon. He said that "The cartoon is a vacuum into which our identity and awareness are pulled an empty shell that we inhabit which enables us to travel in another realm", and "We don't just observe the cartoon, we BECOME it!" (p.36). I think this opinion has an advantage in terms of education for children.

The author said that the readers can identify themselves with the abstract icons in the case of the cartoon described by a simple style. The reason why a complicated style would not be accepted for identification is that the character is described so complex in detail that the readers cannot consider that the character is same as themselves. However, if the character is described simply as if he does not have identity, the readers are easy to cause delusion on themselves. In other words, the readers become the character at the moment when they are drawn into the cartoon.

Then, I think this opinion is really useful one in terms of the audio-visual education. This means that the specific medium such as TV, radio, and movie helps the development of learning effectively on children, but just text books and literature works. In this education, it is one of the important ideas that children can develop their imagination by themselves. For example, if children look the simple picture like as icons in the middle of P. 41, they would be able to work their imagination than the complicated picture. At that time, they would remember and put their real life into the picture in order to figure out the situation. If the picture is more complicated, children would consider them unfamiliar situation, and then they cannot develop their imagination from the established images.