Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic NovelsScott McCloud's Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
was published in 1993, just as "Comics Aren't Just for Kids Anymore!"
articles were starting to appear and graphic novels were making their way
into the mainstream, and it quickly gave the newly respectable medium the
theoretical and practical manifesto it needed. With his clear-eyed and
approachable analysis--done using the same comics tools he was
describing--McCloud quickly gave "sequential art" a language to understand
itself. McCloud made the simplest of drawing decisions seem deep with
artistic potential.
Designed as a craftsperson's overview of the drawing and
storytelling decisions and possibilities available to comics artists,
covering everything from facial expressions and page layout to the choice
of tools and story construction, Making Comics, like its
predecessors, is also an eye-opening trip behind the scenes of art-making,
fascinating for anyone reading comics as well as those making them. Get a
sense of the range of his lessons by clicking through to the opening pages
of his book, including his (illustrated, of course) table of contents.
Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels -->
was published in 1993, just as "Comics Aren't Just for Kids Anymore!"
articles were starting to appear and graphic novels were making their way
into the mainstream, and it quickly gave the newly respectable medium the
theoretical and practical manifesto it needed. With his clear-eyed and
approachable analysis--done using the same comics tools he was
describing--McCloud quickly gave "sequential art" a language to understand
itself. McCloud made the simplest of drawing decisions seem deep with
artistic potential.
