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Group member: Yu-Fang,Hsu and Christine Lin

Three concepts from McCloud's online comic chapter 5 1/2 that relates to a comic book of choice would be Peanuts. The three concepts that the web comic uses are larger fonts, the concept of strips, and the use of black and white lines instead of colour. First of all, since Peanuts is a web comic, the fonts for the text and the word bubble are bigger so it’s easier to read on the computer monitor. As McCloud states, the lettering tends to be bigger than its print counterparts, this needs to be achieved because when we read something on a computer screen, we sit further away, opposed to when we’re sitting on a chair reading a book, we’re able to adjust the distance between you and the book, which is why for web comics, the lettering needs to be bigger. This comic mostly use strip form. McCloud states that one of the most popular formats for print comics are strips. However, web comics caught on strip form because strips fit easily on computer screens without having to scroll around to find the next panel. Peanuts can be a good example of web comics using the strip form. Peanuts uses black and white instead of colour on its web comic. Since the background is white, the black images and text stands out easily. Similar to how most color backgrounds use a light background colour and dark images and text.

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