week 2: Understanding Comics

In Scott McCloud's "understanding Comics", one of the things that stuck out to me was the how we tend to see the human face in everything and can relate the simplest and most generic cartoon face to someone we know. Simply because as humans we want to create everything in our own image. And although we think we see ourselves in mirrors or photos, we have never actually seen ourselves, we notice small things like out hair or eye color, while others see the real us since we like to examine everything in small details.
 And because the simplest of details can mean so many things to the human eye, a cartoon that has no actual specific image can be related to basically half the planet even though the artist just intended it to be  one person based on a possible friend  or passerby. As the cartoon gains more detail people may lose interest because they can't relate the character to themselves or friends visually. We like to assign everything upon appearance and create a side story in our own minds, like the kind of person they are, or where they work, or even if they have a job. All based on the slightest image of a person. With the least amount of detail a lot disappears and our curiosity grows and the story becomes more interesting.