I think I'm pretty good with imagery in general - but while I tried pretty determinedly to read comics for a good while as a child, I just never enjoyed it.
And I've figured out as an adult that it's because most comics for adults employ conventions for recognising characters from frame to frame that don't work for me - I've got to spend a lot of time figuring out if what I'm looking at is the same character as in the previous frame or someone else, and if it's a character who last appeared several pages or issues ago, forget it. They just don't look consistently like the same person, to me.
And I don't have any problem recognising people in the flesh or on TV (although I seem to use voice quite a bit when I recognise actors), so I think it's a particular convention of comic illustration that just isn't working for me.
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Date: 2010-04-09 10:49 am (UTC)And I've figured out as an adult that it's because most comics for adults employ conventions for recognising characters from frame to frame that don't work for me - I've got to spend a lot of time figuring out if what I'm looking at is the same character as in the previous frame or someone else, and if it's a character who last appeared several pages or issues ago, forget it. They just don't look consistently like the same person, to me.
And I don't have any problem recognising people in the flesh or on TV (although I seem to use voice quite a bit when I recognise actors), so I think it's a particular convention of comic illustration that just isn't working for me.