My blog “Word and Image” gave a picture on how word and image works together to express an idea by using an example from Brian Fies’ comic Mom’s cancer. There are many ways to make word and images work together. One way is how Fies’ uses it in the example given in my previous blog. How the image serves as a metaphor to express the words or stress out the feelings of what was going on in the story.
Another way of how word and image works together is how the image portrays the words. Without the words the image wouldn’t make sense or without the image the reader wouldn’t have a good idea on how the characters or what the gestures and expressions are.
Above is a comic strip of Garfield by Jack Chick and Jim Davis. If there are not words or dialogue in the comic then the reader wouldn’t find it amusing like it’s suppose to be. All they’ll see is a strip of images where all Garfield is doing is getting up and laying back down again. They may misinterpret the comic strip, for example. Remove the dialogue and words and it may look like the two Grim reaper are just laughing and making fun of Garfield and he have no clue what is going on and just goes back to sleep. But with the words with the image, it gives a better idea of what is actually going on and what the grim reaper are doing and why they are there. This example shows another significance of words and image working together.
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