Relationship to Comics: My relationship with comics is very new. I would call my self a novice comic reader, I am inexperienced when it comes to reading and analyzing comic books. When I signed up for this course I was not expecting to buy thirteen graphic novels that vary in size, length, theme, and topic. Which all fall under the definition of comic. Even from reading the first three chapters of Understanding Comics, the invisible art (McCloud, 1993) I have learned about the history of comics and how people have been putting images in sequential order to convey a meaning for thousands of hundreds of years. I have also learned that there is a lot more to an image that just the whole picture. Reading The Diary of a Wimpy Kid series by Jeff Kinney is the closest I've gotten to reading a comic before taking this course, ENG 286H. I read this series in my late elementary, early middle school years. I remember enjoying the books so much because they reminded me of experie