2. This is the way people seem to experience time, as a linear sequence.
3. But there's no evidence in physics to support the intuitive idea that time flows.
4. Rather, time does not flow, it exists all at once; perception just limits our view of it.
5. None of us have multiple vantage points to see all space, at every moment in time.
6. So time is an eternal present that can't be translated to a linear, sequential narrative.
7. Meanwhile, comics can communicate multiple vantage points in near-simultaneity.
8. Say, one panel, unlike a photo, can convey some 30 sec interval of time, all at once.
9. Comics allow readers to move back and forth in time and space, to draw the whole.
10. This phenomenon, of observing the parts but perceiving the whole, is called closure.
11. Using imagination to fill gaps underpins cartoonist Scott McCloud's theory of closure.
12. Comics readers fill in the gaps to make sense between two seemingly unrelated panels.
13. They're able to jump from panel to panel with guesses/bridges to stitch a coherent story.
14. Each piece in a comic is just a piece, it can't be understood without connecting the dots.
15. Using closure to bridge time, space and motion, comics deliver a truly satisfying narrative.
16. Being discontinuous, coherent yet total simultaneously makes comics the art form unlike any.
17. It lets us experience time as it exists, all at once, rather than being a linear sequence that flows.
3. But there's no evidence in physics to support the intuitive idea that time flows.
4. Rather, time does not flow, it exists all at once; perception just limits our view of it.
5. None of us have multiple vantage points to see all space, at every moment in time.
6. So time is an eternal present that can't be translated to a linear, sequential narrative.
7. Meanwhile, comics can communicate multiple vantage points in near-simultaneity.
8. Say, one panel, unlike a photo, can convey some 30 sec interval of time, all at once.
9. Comics allow readers to move back and forth in time and space, to draw the whole.
10. This phenomenon, of observing the parts but perceiving the whole, is called closure.
11. Using imagination to fill gaps underpins cartoonist Scott McCloud's theory of closure.
12. Comics readers fill in the gaps to make sense between two seemingly unrelated panels.
13. They're able to jump from panel to panel with guesses/bridges to stitch a coherent story.
14. Each piece in a comic is just a piece, it can't be understood without connecting the dots.
15. Using closure to bridge time, space and motion, comics deliver a truly satisfying narrative.
16. Being discontinuous, coherent yet total simultaneously makes comics the art form unlike any.
17. It lets us experience time as it exists, all at once, rather than being a linear sequence that flows.