How to read

Many critics of Comics as a whole tend to view the medium as less-sophisticated, but nothing could be farther from the truth. Because of the self-depreciating humour of the creators who invented the medium, yes, much of the content within the medium has evolved from a low-brow place, but one of the main reasons why monocle-popping (sorry Theiya) professors scoff at Comics is actually not because they've chosen not to read them, but because they found they had too much trouble attempting to read them.

The visual medium of Comics is a language all unto its own. Draw a curve, and it's merely a curve, but draw a curve in the centre of a large circle, and the curve suddenly looks like a nose. These two symbols are the 'words', and together, they begin to create a 'paragraph'.

Comics has many symbols like these - whether drawn realistically, with more, additional lines for detail, or more pared down, to what the evolved human brain has decided the essence of a symbol is. While originally, language were pictures, turned into pictograms, then hieroglyphs (even more pared down), until eventually they became the abstract, super-simple symbols of our current alphabets today. Some of comics symbolism has done a similar thing, and so it must now be taught as to what certain symbols might mean, or how to interpret them.

That is why this page exists; because few people are teaching others how to read the more advanced symbolism.

Below, will eventually be simple tutorials, many visual, on what certain symbols are, how to read comic page flow, how to navigate the website, and etc.