Closer in Comics

http://www.iranian.com/Books/2002/November/Satrapi/

I choose a chapter/comic strip from the complete Persepolis comic that is a compilation of comics that together formed the memoir of Marjane Satrabi. This particular comic is titled The Trip and takes place in Iran during the war that was taking place in the late 1970's and into the early 1980's. Most of the frames in this particular comic use the closure that Scott McCloud discusses called subject-to-subject. Closure is when we as human being's get closure from our learned experience and use it to put together incomplete images seen by the eye. In comics, we as readers must find closure in the images and the way that they are intricately placed upon the page. We find closure from using our past experiences to put together fragments of a whole idea. In The Trip Satrabi uses subject-to-subject transitions by using the illustration and words to create closure for her readers as well as using scene-to-scene transitions. Both these transistions are used to illustrate to her readers closure in the way that they understand what it is she is trying to explain and/or show her audience. This comic does a good job of using these two types of trasitions to illustrate a sense of closure to the audience that is easy to grasp considering the seriousness of it's contents and therefore I believe that The Trip can be successfully understood by an audience and ultimately will enable them to find closure in the ideas she is attempting to project through her comic.