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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
 
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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (Paperback)
by Scott McCloud (Author)
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Product details

  • Paperback: 224 pages
  • Publisher: HarperCollins; 1st HarperPerennial Ed edition (6 May 1994)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 006097625X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060976255
  • Product Dimensions: 25.6 x 17 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  (17 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 6,845 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #15 in  Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Cult Graphic Novels

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  • Other Editions: Hardcover  |  Paperback  |  Library Binding (Reprint) |  Unknown Binding (Import) |  All Editions


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Amazon.co.uk Review
As all good card-carrying comic-book fans know, their sheer passion will never overcome narrow-minded critics and their baying cries of derision. There is far more to this perpetually underrated medium than a mix of art and prose. With this indispensable, spellbinding tome, writer/artist Scott McCloud rises to the challenge of dissecting what remains the most enigmatic of art forms. After all, says McCloud, "No other art form gives so much to its audience while asking so much from them as well". Over the course of 215 impeccably formed pages, McCloud joyously exposes and deconstructs a hidden world of icons in a most literate and valid manner. His charming guidance finds a place where Time and Space is effortlessly malleable and the reader is both a willing accomplice and necessary vessel for comics' singular magic. Cunningly presented in comic form, McCloud (or his comic equivalent) conducts a journey that spans thousands of years, taking in art from Prehistoric Man to the Egyptians to Van Gogh to Jack Kirby. Never has psychological and cultural analysis been so understandably clear, beautifully aided by