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Is This A Comic? Closure and Synthesis (Part 3)

August 1, 2008 - 10:43 | Patric Lewandowski

For the past couple of columns (part one and part two), we've been examining "closure and synthesis" -- the third of my "four criteria" for a new definition of what is a comic.  Closure was defined as "the phenomenon of observing the parts but perceiving the whole" while synthesis is defined as "the process of the human mind to take the elements provided to them in a work and to create from the