Understanding comics amazon5/30/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() I love this book because after you read it, you see the whole world differently. And who knows? It might even open up a whole genre for you. Even if you’re not at all interested in comics, I promise that you will learn something from McCloud. To quote Art Spiegelman, the “simple-looking tome deconstructs the secret language of comics while casually revealing secrets of time, space, art and the cosmos!” Originally published in the early 90s, this book has become a contemporary classic, and is in my top 10 all-time influential books on my own practice. But it’s also much more than that: using the medium of comics, Scott McCloud explains a whole world of visual communication and teaches lessons that apply to anyone working in any kind of visual medium. ![]() No amount of teaching can take the place of the familiarity you gain from years of reading and enjoying comic books. Of course, its best to be a reader of comic books. My May pick for our Read Like an Artist book club is one of my all-time favorites and a bonafide classic: Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics. Understanding comics is easy if you keep some basic tenets in mind. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |