The primary comic I focused on was Windsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland, whose visuals piqued my interests particularly. The whimsical, yet realistic, approach to the illustration truly makes Slumberland's setting feel believable. This strip is written serially rather than episodically, which I believe aids in the appeal of Little Nemo. I feel if it were episodic, it would be harder to understand Slumberland, while serially Nemo can walk us through the settings and explore.

Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics makes the brilliant choice to explain his ideas about how to read and analyze comics by putting the information in comic form. His explanation of the divide between conceptual and sensual worlds, and how comics can bridge that through illustration, stuck out to me. The form of the comic strip allows reality to be bent to tell it's narrative.

The Arrival, by Shaun Tan, tells it's story without words through it's strong visuals. The sheer expressiveness captured through his illustration tells a story of immigration and feelings of being out of place. The mixture of realism and surrealism creates stunning imagery and truly allows the reader to connect with the main character's discomfort with this strange new culture.