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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud

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Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels by Scott McCloud

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Comics and Sequential Art by Will Eisner

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Writing for Comics: 1 by Alan Moore

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Graphic Storytelling by Will Eisner

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Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins; 1st Perennial Ed edition (Aug 2000)
Language English
ISBN-10: 0060953500
ISBN-13: 978-0060953508
Product Dimensions: 26 x 16.8 x 1.8 cm
Average Customer Review: (1 customer review)
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 17,313 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Synopsis
Explains how digital revolutions are affecting the comic strip business, from the artist's creation of the comic strips to the distribution of the finished product to the consumers.

Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels by Scott McCloud

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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud

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Highly readable but ultimately disappointing, 31 Oct 2000

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Scott McCloud was always going to have a hard time topping the inspired, revolutionary 'Understanding Comics', and it is perhaps no surprise that this follow-up does not entirely manage to do so. It's certainly highly readable, with McCloud's likeable approach and unquestionable intelligence coming through on every page. But whereas 'Understanding' was a cohesive, tightly-structured study of the language, conventions and underpinnings of comics, 'Reinventing' fails perhaps because in the end it attempts to do too much. The best sections, containing McCloud's theorising on the potential for various forms of digital / online comics, work so well because of the author's infectious enthusiasm for his subject. Other topics, such as a discussion of the woes of the current comics industry and the need for wider cultural representation in the medium, lack this enthusiasm and suffer for it. I suppose the best way to sum it up is to say that whereas 'Understanding' not only fired me up with the desire to create comics but also gave me concrete tools and things to think about, 'Reinventing' did moderately well at the first aspect, but did little regarding the second. Certainly worth reading if you're interested in the future possibilites for the medium, but not the classic it's predecessor was.

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