Life as cartoon. Visual literacy declines as the lexicon of images narrows. We are gradually forced to portray and view more of life as a comic strip. Enterprising schools, families and companies will spend extra money to buy clip art collections. There are many CDs now on the market which offer thousands of images for very little money.
Trouble is . . .
If we add more mediocre images, we have done little to address the problem. Open up the clip art libraries. Print out the pictures of office workers and cats. The typical clip art consumer relies upon a very limited clip art library, usually turning to the collection which comes bundled with the software program. The offering which accompanies Microsoft Office 1998 for the Mac is remarkably barren, with few images for each category and even fewer images worth using.