Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud

Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud in my opinion, is a masterpiece that everyone everywhere should pick up. I have read very few writings that dive so deep into human psychology and explain it so clearly. The ideas that Scott McCloud discusses in his writing, and drawings, are ideas that I believe everyone has thought of at some point in time. At the very least anyone that has read comics has subconsciously been thinking the way McCloud explains. I found that to be astounding because its like a perception filter in Doctor Who, you never notice it there in plain sight until someone or something brings it to your attention and then you are able to see the object. That is how this book affected me; it hit me like a mind melting sci-fi plot twist. Obviously the fact that he himself made the book in a comic format and not a simply research type paper makes all the difference. The reader is going through the motions of reading another regular comic but as you read it the book is describing exactly how you are reading it and why you read it that way and its incredible to see how the human brain is such an individual thing but we all do these things so similarly.
The most interesting part for me is how we all can associate ourselves with the representation of a human face in a cartoon. It is only when we reach uncanny valley that we become disconnected from the character we are looking at and start to see the character and not ourselves. This was also a hard choice since this book has such great ideas, the way he describes how there are different levels of an artist was mind blowing. Simply because I feel as if I already had all the information in my brain just floating around and McCloud was able to piece all the background workings of the brain and put it in this book.