Comics is a spectacular form of art where drawing and writing are not completely different media, but represent a continuity between the realistic depiction of the world around "where the brushstrokes are nearly invisible in its subtlety" and words - the ulitmate abstraction (of the world). I find it fascinating how both pictures and words (text) can create a balanced combination to convey a certain message. It is not only the choice of style, technique in which they are created, but also their composition on a page that brings life to a story, feeling, experience, the communicated movement in time and space. Despite of being static, lines and dots on a page are capable of immersing us in an imaginable world and convey a feeling of movement through time and space.
I observe a direct connection of the media of comics with landscape architecture (especially when communicating ideas through posters) where the interplay between words and images defines how our ideas, solutions and designs are perceived by the reader. During education in landscape architecture there is much focus on learning effective visual communication of ideas so that just by quickly looking at an architectural proposal a reader can easily grasp the main thougths and concepts, while a detailed description in a longer text is available to give more details, if necessary. When relating to the book "Understanding comics: the invisible art" by Scott McCloud, landscape architecture poster should be easily "received" at the first glance. If necessary, some more detailed levels of description in plan text or in a combination with images, diagrams might be included for a more comprehensive "perception" of a landscape architecture proposal. Reading a landscape architecture proposal is often similar to reading comics. Similar to a narration in comics, the interplay of forms and colours (of both images and text) often subconciously lead our eye through the page(s) of material revealing a "story" of a place and its future.
Image from "Understanding comics: the invisible art" by Scott McCloud, 1993