In chapter two of “Understanding Comics” “The Vocabulary of Comics” a cartoon narrator discusses how humans are able to see icons in realistic pictures. As an object becomes more simplified we respond in a different way emotionally. By simplifying an image we also simplify its meaning and describe it in a way realism cannot. Cartoons call this “amplification through simplification.” He goes on to say that objects are an extension of ourselves and become an extension of our bodies.
   In chapter five “Living in Line” the narrator further discusses how visual objects effect us emotionally. He states that in the world of comics the emotional or sensual response that an object or picture evokes in us is crucial.
   After this reading I realized that overly complicated designs are not always the most effective. The concept of “amplification through simplification” really resounded with me and I was especially interested in the emotional response simplifying objects can evoke.