Time Frames
I usually have the hardest time with the readings for this class. As English is not my mother tongue most the readings in this book have been very challenging for me. The first thing I usually do is check how many pages the reading has, in order to plan how many hours it’ll take me to read it. So far the average has been 3.5 hours per reading. So time frames was my favorite reading by far! 
I had never analyzed comics before and found McClouds thoughts quite interesting.
This weekend two people in church had told me seperately from each other in different conversations “time will tell”, so when I read it in his comic I was just struck and it made the reading even more personal.
I know people who just love comics, and who spend hours and hours reading them. I usually prefer a good book, or a short comic in a newspaper, but I am not a big fan of comic books. I find them tirering to read. And even with this interesting one I fell asleep half way through. Well, I think the reason I prefer books to comics is that I can come up with my own images in my head. Also the print is always in the same size and usually bigger than in those tiny speach bubbles.
But many people like cartoons because it is less writing and more pictures and as I said at the beginning that was exactly the reason why I appreciated this chapter so much.
The one thing I didn’t understand is what this story had to do with New Media. So far I thought the New Media meant technology and suddenly we go back to comics. So maybe someone has an answer for me…
I have to say his closing line really made me think though. “All depends on your frame of mind” is there a pun hidden? Can we transfer this to the New Media?
Oh and another thing that came to my mind was an anecdote. My first encounter with the American way of saying that a clock doesn’t show the correct time. Many years back I was an exchange student in North Dakota. During a conversation my little host sister said that the clock was going fast. And I laughed and tried to explain that all clocks go the same speed, and that the one she was talking about simply told the wrong time. She insisted though that the clock was going fast and so my hostmother stepped in and explained to me, that this was the correct way of expressing it. To this day I think it is funny though that American clocks go fast and slow. And all this talking about time frames brought this memory back…