Scott McCloud

Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics and Making Comics, came to speak to SCAD. He was an awesome public speaker and had a mesmerizing PowerPoint presentation to go with what he was saying. Still, amongst all the things he said he mentioned something which I found very inspiring and useful for my thesis. He spoke about comics, movies or games and how they are viewed as a form of escape from our world; an imaginary shelter. But then he said that he doesn't believe that we escape into those worlds but rather that through visiting them we understand more about our own world. We can gain insights through these forms of entertainment and bring them back with us and grow from those experiences.

Well, this after all is what my thesis is about.