Making comics : storytelling secrets of comics, manga and graphic novels / Scott McCloud.
Presents instructions for aspiring cartoonists on the art form's key techniques, sharing concise and accessible guidelines on such principles as capturing the human condition through words and images in a minimalist style.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Harper,
[2006]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Presents instructions for aspiring cartoonists on the art form's key techniques, sharing concise and accessible guidelines on such principles as capturing the human condition through words and images in a minimalist style. "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 character's 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 stand--in 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 once-underappreciated art form."--Publisher's description. |
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| Physical Description: | 264 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-257) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780060780944 0060780940 9781435261945 1435261941 9781417763573 1417763574 9781428708679 1428708677 |