To talk about 'ink on paper' is to talk about the dissolution of diegesis, of representation and that 'it means what it is' seems to me to echo (unconsciously?) Frank Stella's 'You see what you see.' This, then, completely opens the possibility of abstract comics, which can occupy the top of McCloud triangular schema: Secondly, after discussing 'iconic abstraction,' the simplification inherent in cartooning that may reduce figures to very simple shapes which nevertheless still have meaning (this is something that I also mentioned, probably remembering this passage from UC, in the introduction to the anthology), McCloud goes on to mention the more traditional sense of 'abstraction,' the one we largely use here: To begin with, notice that McCloud's definition of comics says nothing about narrative or figuration: (Scott was also kind enough to link on his blog to my earlier post on Understanding Comics and Zot, and I'd like hereby to thank him for both that and for his visit.)ДЄnyway, since that post, I have kept going back to Understanding Comics, and realizing more and more not only how extensive is the presence of abstraction in its overall argument, but also how UC itself opens up a space for the possibility, and reception, of abstract comics. Scott was here in Bloomington this past Monday, giving an amazing talk to the largest and most enthusiastic audience I've ever seen at a university lecture I fortunately had the chance to hang out with him both before and after his talk, and I'm still pumped up about all the artistic and technological possibilities we batted back and forth (and also with seven PhD students from Computer Science, over dinner!). (It's page 137, the last page of chapter 5, 'Living in Line.') Here is the page from 'Understanding Comics' from which the above comes: Ok, ok, I know this won't work twice in a row, not to mention I already gave away the answer in the title to this post. Here's an abstract comic quick, who is it by?

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