McCloud Blog #2

I chose Beths comic, Ninety-Five. This is an online comic about a father, who apparently travels a lot, coming home from a trip and then reading his daughter a bedtime story. The little girl is looking at the pictures in the book and telling her father what those images mean to her. When the picture of a telephone is presented, she identifies it with the word "daddy". This is an example of interdependent combination or words and images/pictures, according to McCloud. Interdependent combinations of words and pictures is when "words and pictures go hand in hand to convey an idea that neither could convey alone" (155). At first, we can't see the image of the telephone - the online comic is interactive, you have to click on the pink panel and the telephone (or better the picture of the telephone) is then revealed, and it's only once we can see the picture, that we understand the idea behind the comic and the reason the daughter is saying "Daddy!".