Understanding Comics

By Scott McCloud

Subjects: Entreprises de presse, Art, Juvenile literature, Basic reader, Story, Sequential art, Comic books, strips, etc., history and criticism, Cartooning, Cartoons and comics, Modern Literature, Cartoons and caricatures, Comic Books, Sequential, Modern literature, Long now manual for civilization, Long Now Manual for Civilization, Strips, Comic books, strips, Dessin humoristique, Cartoons as Topic, Publishing, Cartoon, Historietas, Authorship, Comic books, History and criticism, Cartoons as topic, Technique, Illustrations, Periodicals, Manga, Humor, form, comic strips & cartoons, Comics

Description: 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.