McCloud Part #2: Blog Comparison

The blog I chose to look at was Beth's: http://beths0103.blogspot.com/
The comic she looked at was called "Ninety-Five". Link to "Ninety-Five": http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/ball/95/95p1.html. This comic talks about a father's distance from his family and the effect that it has on them, particularly his daughter. The idea that one thing can represent something else is discussed in McCloud's book. He talks about how, on page 66, the image of someone being chased in one frame and a blood curdling scream in the next means that they have died in between, in the gutter.
In "Ninety-Five" the gutter shows the daughter's constant longing for her father, and how the phone has represented her father for so long in the past by having one frame be a book where the daughter is guessing the picture as "Daddy" and in the next frame it is revealed that it is actually a telephone.