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 Do you agree with McLuhan when he says comics are an extension of photographic media?

Yes, I do agree, because comics are visual recreations of events and conversations going on between characters, which could easily be viewed in real life. They are like snapshots of little occurrences or mini-events and we can see these pictures, add the pieces together and form a story in our minds. In photography, there is always a story behind the image or even occurring in the image itself and we also come to conclusions about that image. The first Law of Media according to Marshall McLuhan is that "every new medium extends a human property (eg. "the car extends the foot," http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duplpYN5nmE). In this case, I believe that comics are an extension of our eyes and the perception of sight, because we are seeing a visual representation of actions and drawing a story out of it. We are actively viewing cause and effect and then interpreting what we want out of an image.