Making Comics : Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels

English

ISBN: 0060780940

EAN: 9780060780944

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

Release Date: 09/05/2006

Synopsis: Scott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture in 1993 with Understanding Comics, a massive comic book about comics, linking the medium to such diverse fields as media theory, movie criticism, and web design. In Reinventing Comics, McCloud took this to the next level, charting twelve different revolutions in how comics are generated, read, and perceived today. Now, in Making Comics, McCloud focuses his analysis on the art form itself, exploring the creation of comics, from the broadest principles to the sharpest details (like how to accentuate a characters facial muscles in order to form the emotion of disgust rather than the emotion of surprise.) And he does all of it in his inimitable voice and through his cartoon standin narrator, mixing dry humor and legitimate instruction. McCloud shows his reader how to master the human condition through word and image in a brilliantly minimalistic way. Comic book devotees as well as the most uninitiated will marvel at this journey into a onceunderappreciated art form.

Awards: Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year – null  Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year – null 

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Making Comics : Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.72 inches

Width: 6.75 inches

Length: 10.25 inches

Weight: 19.22 oz

Pages: 272