The heuristics in reading one page of Chris Ware’s Acme Novelty Library

Abstract

In this text, I approached one page of Chris Ware’s Acme Novelty Li-brary. I kept only one into focus because this single page is already intense in theoretical intertext and demanding of reading skills. Theoretical approaches by Gestalt theory, comics reading, and by Wolfgang Iser on the act of reading will be present, as well as on effect of texts. Another theoretical consideration invol-ves the ambiguous classification under metapatterns, as conceived by the cy-berneticist Gregory Bateson and catalogued by Tyler Volk in an eponymous book. Complementarily, since the aesthetic object is in a comic strip format, some semiotic and intersemiotic considerations must be attended.