According to the video, art is the imagination created into representation. It is a way of knowing the world, and in this, it is no different from science. In fact, the one pushes the other forward, extrapolating from the known to the unreal and thus recreating a new reality from which to extrapolate onwards.
In the video, William feels that every single comic book page is a poem in itself.
What comics teach us is that making an idea real is a process of going into the unknown and imagining something new.
This video lecture explores the relationship between comics and science fiction, using the question "how do ideas become real?" as a guiding principle. The speaker, William Kuskin, an English professor, analyzes specific comic book covers and pages from Action Comics #1, Fantastic Four #1, and Saga, to illustrate how comics, through their unique visual and narrative structure, reflect and shape our understanding of science, reality, and the human condition.