No one blames themselves if they don't understand a cartoon, as they might with a painting or "real" art; they simply think it's a bad cartoon.

I think it has most to do with the way in which a story is told, whether it feels real either via the music of the telling or the honesty of the story.

I think cartooning gets at, and re-creates on the page, some sixth sense ... in a way no other medium can.

There is something about the medium [in comics] that allows for a simulation of actual experience with the added benefit of actually reading. You're reading pictures, but you are also looking at them. It's a sort of combined activity that I can't really think of any other medium having, other than, say, a foreign film when you are reading and seeing. It allows for all sorts of associations that might not come up with just words or just pictures.