Comments on Blog Flume: POV and Autobiography

Derik,Thanks for taking the time to respond. I'll...

2008-07-20T08:54:00.000-07:00

Derik,

Thanks for taking the time to respond. I'll be following your blog for news about your article on POV, something I am very interested in, too.

A brief and belated comment:http://madinkbeard.com...

2008-07-19T07:25:00.000-07:00

A brief and belated comment:
http://madinkbeard.com/notes/2008/parille-chelsea-and-pov

I like the fact that you use images from his and o...

2008-07-09T11:16:00.000-07:00

I like the fact that you use images from his and other comics to make the point. This helps me to see what you are getting at.

Good points. I think a meta POV might take into a...

2008-07-05T19:50:00.000-07:00

Good points. I think a meta POV might take into account more of an individual's experience (which is not, simply, the visual data you're perceiving - even the act of perceiving visual data implies conceiving thought-forms). You are, in autobiography, presenting yourself as a character, which implies that you are making choices about how you want yourself to appear. Your subjective point of view is not representing a direct, objective reality-as-you-see-it because the cartooning occurs after the fact and is mediated by choices (possibly unconsciously) about what constitutes story or even what constitutes reality. The way a cartoonist like Crumb or Joe Matt very consciously constructs a persona to stand in for them is kinda like recognizing that comics are often an art of abstraction and that attempting to portray the "objective" would be like trying to build a Borges map.