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mindsets @[email protected] · 2026-05-02 · 23:47 UTC

I still consider Scott McCloud's 1993 off-the-cuff definition of "art" in #UnderstandingComics to be the best definition I'm aware of (the emphases are his):

"Because of its independence from our evolution-bred instincts, art is the way we ASSERT OUR IDENTITIES as INDIVIDUALS and BREAK OUT of the NARROW ROLES nature cast us in."

#individuality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Comics

#understandingcomics #individuality

mindsets @[email protected] · 2026-05-02 · 23:47 UTC

I still consider Scott McCloud's 1993 off-the-cuff definition of "art" in #UnderstandingComics to be the best definition I'm aware of (the emphases are his):

"Because of its independence from our evolution-bred instincts, art is the way we ASSERT OUR IDENTITIES as INDIVIDUALS and BREAK OUT of the NARROW ROLES nature cast us in."

#individuality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Comics

#understandingcomics #individuality

mindsets @[email protected] · 2026-05-02 · 23:47 UTC

I still consider Scott McCloud's 1993 off-the-cuff definition of "art" in #UnderstandingComics to be the best definition I'm aware of (the emphases are his):

"Because of its independence from our evolution-bred instincts, art is the way we ASSERT OUR IDENTITIES as INDIVIDUALS and BREAK OUT of the NARROW ROLES nature cast us in."

#individuality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Comics

#understandingcomics #individuality

mindsets @[email protected] · 2026-05-02 · 23:47 UTC

I still consider Scott McCloud's 1993 off-the-cuff definition of "art" in #UnderstandingComics to be the best definition I'm aware of (the emphases are his):

"Because of its independence from our evolution-bred instincts, art is the way we ASSERT OUR IDENTITIES as INDIVIDUALS and BREAK OUT of the NARROW ROLES nature cast us in."

#individuality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Comics

#individuality #understandingcomics

mindsets @[email protected] · 2026-05-02 · 23:47 UTC

I still consider Scott McCloud's 1993 off-the-cuff definition of "art" in #UnderstandingComics to be the best definition I'm aware of (the emphases are his):

"Because of its independence from our evolution-bred instincts, art is the way we ASSERT OUR IDENTITIES as INDIVIDUALS and BREAK OUT of the NARROW ROLES nature cast us in."

#individuality

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Understanding_Comics

#understandingcomics #individuality