In "Setting the Record Straight", Scott McCloud cleverly defines comics through an actual comic medium. He defines comics as "Juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer". Taking this definition into account I started to think about how technological advances in not just our own society but other more technologically advanced societies (such as Japan) will possibly change how we perceive comics. He pointed out that photos from a photo booth can be considered comics because nowhere does the definition for comics state that the images have to be drawn. The idea of using photography for comics really stuck out in my mind as particularly interesting. The only thing close that I could find on the internet was this image, which isn't even a comic because it is only one picture and not a series of pictures in sequence, but has bubbles in it to make it seem comic-like. I find it hard to believe that nobody has toyed with this idea. It might be somewhat time consuming but nevertheless interesting.

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