Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
“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.
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It's okay I guess. But mostly it's just basic talk about comics being pictures and words combined and mostly black and white, very basic and simple stuff. 90% of it is very long and convoluted talk about basic things that can be observed by any person by reading a random comic book. For example, writers use different colors to create an image of the hero in the story, like Batman being dark and Superman being red and blue... so what? But it was too boring to be a childrens book. So I don't understand why it was written?
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