This detail-packed book includes a history of comics that reaches back to pre-Columbian picture manuscripts and Egyptian monuments and a running analysis of comics as art, literature, and communication.
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This detail-packed book includes a history of comics that reaches back to pre-Columbian picture manuscripts and Egyptian monuments and a running analysis of comics as art, literature, and communication.
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Add this copy of Understanding Comics to cart. $3.17, good condition, Sold by Reuseabook rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Gloucester, GLOS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 1997 by Kitchen Sink Pr (Nrt).
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Add this copy of Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art to cart. $15.95, good condition, Sold by Delight of Life Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from CEDAR, MI, UNITED STATES, published 1993 by Kitchen Sink Press.
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As long as I can recall my first reading of Zot!, I've been a fan of Scott McCloud's work. When Understanding Comics first came out, I glommed onto it instantly and have benefited from its great storytelling technique. This time around, I bought the book for my daughter who is a writing major and comics artist and is enrolled this semester in a comics course. We are both thoroughly familiar with McCloud's substantial observations on the structure and logic of sequential art and storytelling--I've always enjoyed the distinctions between kinds of transitions between panels, especially that of aspect-to-aspect. Despite the sophisticated concepts which are communicated in this book, McCloud manages to communicate his ideas in an accessible and engaging manner which can be gotten by professional and lay person alike.
mary w
Jun 9, 2011
thank you for the fast service and delivery of this product so I could have it for my summer classes
ACHOU
Nov 1, 2007
easy read, very insightful and raises the questions in regards to "art"
