Understanding Comics

Name: Understanding Comics
ISBN: 9780060976255

Scott McCloud

215 pages · about 4 hours
First published 1993
19 editions

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1 About this book

Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics is a seminal examination of comics art: its rich history, surprising technical components, and major cultural significance. Explore the secret world between the panels, through the lines, and within the hidden symbols of a powerful but misunderstood art form.

Humor, comic strips & cartoons
Illustrations
Technique
Comic
Comic books
Art
Cartoons
Manga

2 About Scott McCloud

Born 1960

Scott McCloud (born Scott Willard McLeod; June 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist and comics theorist. His non-fiction books about comics, Understanding Comics (1993), Reinventing Comics (2000), and Making Comics (2006), are made in comic form. He became established as a comics creator in the 1980s as an independent superhero cartoonist and advocate for creator's rights.

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