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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
Reader Score
80%
80% of readers
recommend this book
"Reading Understanding Comics blew my teenage mind, and gave me a toolbox full of ideas that I still use today." --Raina Telgemeier
The bestselling international classic on storytelling and visual communication.
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.
Book Details
- Publisher: William Morrow & Company
- Publish Date: May 17th, 1994
- Pages: 224
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 10.10in - 6.70in - 0.50in - 1.04lb
- EAN: 9780060976255
- Recommended age: 13-17
- Categories: • Techniques - Cartooning• Humor• Form - Comic Strips & Cartoons
About the Author
Scott McCloud has been writing, drawing, and examining comics since 1984. Winner of the Eisner and Harvey awards, his works have been translated into more than sixteen languages. Frank Miller (Sin City, 300) called him "just about the smartest guy in comics." He lives with his family in southern California. His online comics and inventions can be found at scottmccloud.com.
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What people are saying
Clive Thompson is a science and tech writer.
@AdamDasky @pbwinston Yep -- and I wonder if that 16X16 phenomenon is similar to the effect Scott McCloud noted in "Understanding Comics" ... ... to wit: The lower-rez and more abstract is a cartoon figure/face, the more *inviting* it is We, the viewer, fill in the details https://t.co/y21hh7LHHn
NYT bestselling author-illustrator of Dasher, Hoops, and a bunch of other books. Dasher Can't Wait for Christmas now available for preorder!
One of my students at Maine College of Art loaned me her copy of UNDERSTANDING COMICS back in 2005, and I've read it countless times since then. HOOPS probably wouldn't exist if I hadn't read this book. Thanks, @scottmccloud, and congrats on 30 years! 🥂 https://t.co/rKR2fXieC5
Matthew R. Francis is a physicist and science writer.
the comic that really got me into comics? I'm gonna show what a NERD I am and say... Scott McCloud's "Understanding Comics". I always read comics, but I never really got obsessed until I read that book. https://t.co/t4U2EJerNl
Praise for this book
"If you read, write, teach or draw comics; if you want to; or if you simply want to watch a master explainer at work, you must read this book." -- Neil Gaiman
"McCloud's masterwork is not just an indispensable treatise on comics, it's also the best primer around on visual literacy and the mechanics of storytelling. A must-read for anyone interested in narrative of any kind." -- Alison Bechdel
"Cleverly disguised as an easy-to-read comic book, Scott McCloud's simple-looking tome deconstructs the secret language of comics while casually revealing secrets of time, space, art and the cosmos! The most intelligent comics I've seen in a long time. Bravo." -- Art Spiegelman
"Reading Understanding Comics blew my teenage mind, and gave me a toolbox full of ideas that I still use today." -- Raina Telgemeier
"The best analysis of the medium that I have ever encountered." -- Alan Moore
"BRAVO!! ... A landmark dissection and intellectual consideration of comics as a valid medium. ... Anyone interested in this literary form must read it." -- Will Eisner
What people are saying
Clive Thompson is a science and tech writer.
@AdamDasky @pbwinston Yep -- and I wonder if that 16X16 phenomenon is similar to the effect Scott McCloud noted in "Understanding Comics" ... ... to wit: The lower-rez and more abstract is a cartoon figure/face, the more *inviting* it is We, the viewer, fill in the details https://t.co/y21hh7LHHn
NYT bestselling author-illustrator of Dasher, Hoops, and a bunch of other books. Dasher Can't Wait for Christmas now available for preorder!
One of my students at Maine College of Art loaned me her copy of UNDERSTANDING COMICS back in 2005, and I've read it countless times since then. HOOPS probably wouldn't exist if I hadn't read this book. Thanks, @scottmccloud, and congrats on 30 years! 🥂 https://t.co/rKR2fXieC5