miércoles, 15 de diciembre de 2010

Comic Life Self-Reflection

Working with Comic Life was certainly something new, but it wasn't that hard. I liked that everything was visible and easy to manage. Talking boxes and different styles of font and backgrounds took almost no time to locate. The system is very nice, but the overall experience was not exactly my favorite. For someone that is a fan of this type of stuff, editing and taking time in creativity, Comic Life is great. For someone like me, that likes to almost only write and do nothing more, it can get quite boring. Specially when exporting Photo Shop images. It takes a couple of full-time classes only to edit the images and import them to Comic Life. I think that our project is worthy of being showed to other people. We took some serious time on our details and the information is clear. Using Comic Life was something new and easy, but it takes creative types of people for it to flourish.

I believe that comics can be useful to learn serious literature. They are obviously not the most serious resource to learn about a subject, but they work. I agree that some comics are mainly made to entertain. Although I also think some comics are made for easy understanding about serious subjects. I've seen some of my classmates comics about Romeo and Juliet and they do show the characteristics of the play. They use original language, and modern language when appropriate or when not talking about something very important. Overall, I think that comics are a useful and easy approach to understand literary subjects.