[Sigia-l] photos on personas?

Eric Scheid eric.scheid at ironclad.net.au
Sun Apr 1 21:14:24 EDT 2007


On 1/4/07 10:48 PM, "Challis Hodge" <challis at challishodge.com> wrote:

> Dave, could you clarify what you mean by "people respond better to
> cartoons"? Do you mean they respond better to cartoons than photographs of
> real people? If so how did you come to this conclusion? Just trying to
> understand where you're coming from on this. Cool stuff btw.

Scott McCloud explained in his book (Understanding Comics) that the
ambiguity in an illustration facilitated greater empathy because the reader
would "fill in the blanks" according to their biases.

e.




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