When I first picked up McCloud reading assignment at the library, I was a bit confused. I'd actually read Understanding Comics already, for a graphic novel course I took last summer. I couldn't remember anything in it, though, that had anything to do with this class. As soon as I started reading, however, I began to draw comparisons between the things I'd learned about comics and their design/purpose and the ideas we've been looking at in class. 

I especially enjoyed the idea of comics being an art, a medium, and a "vessel which can hold any number of ideas and images." I think this holds true for graphic design and webpages as well. I think it is valuable to look at graphic design as an artform, and content as being "up to creators, and we all have different tastes." This is something I've been pondering for a bit this semester: what is the relation between form/content and art? That is to say, I'm sure there must be a line drawn somewhere between the need for efficiency and utilitarian style in a website or graphic design, but where does art come in? Must form always follow function, or can the form itself be the function?