When people see pictures, for example on a poster, they
automatically think of it actually being that product. However, the comic
discusses how the pictures are actually icons. The images we call symbols are
one category of icons. Pictures are images designed to actually resemble their
subjects. Pictures are fluid and variable according to their appearance. Words
are abstract icons because they have no resemblance to the actuality of the
object. The artist states that cartooning is a form of amplification through
simplification. We as humans see ourselves in everything and so we assign
identities and emotions where they don’t actually exist. Without even knowing
it, our identities and awareness are invested in inanimate objects everyday. Identities
belong to the conceptual world because they can’t be felt or smelled because
they are merely ideas. Today’s society is inventing new symbols regularly.
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