Understanding Comics

In the book Understanding Comics, there are a lot of ideas being thrown around that make a lot of sense and really break down the meaning of icons and cartoons. How we relate to a photograph as a real image is saying the same as a cartoon, because we see a representation of a human face and we just gradually abstract the form to relate it to a real face. Saying that is a cartoon can be the same as saying a photograph is as well. It also says in the book that it can be used as icons of what we imagine to be realistic faces just gradually broken down to the simplest form. What is really being said is that cartoons is just a simplified version of what we see in the real world. We see things differently and even see faces in inanimate objects to create a world that is more interesting.