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Understanding comics : the invisible art : Scott McCloud.

By: McCloud, Scott, 1960-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: [New York, NY] : HarperPerennial, 1993Description: 216 p. : ill. ; 27 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 006097625X.Subject(s): Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism | Comic books, strips, etc | Cartooning -- TechniqueDDC classification: 741.5
Contents:
Setting the record straight -- The vocabulary of comics -- Blood in the gutter -- Time Frames -- Living in line -- Show and tell -- The six steps -- A word about color -- Putting it all together.
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Barcode
General lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 741.5 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00079234
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"Reading Understanding Comics blew my teenage mind, and gave me a toolbox full of ideas that I still use today." --Raina Telgemeier

The bestselling international classic on storytelling and visual communication.

Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics is a seminal examination of comics art: its rich history, surprising technical components, and major cultural significance. Explore the secret world between the panels, through the lines, and within the hidden symbols of a powerful but misunderstood art form.

Bibliography: (page 216).

Setting the record straight -- The vocabulary of comics -- Blood in the gutter -- Time Frames -- Living in line -- Show and tell -- The six steps -- A word about color -- Putting it all together.

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Library Journal Review

McCloud's intelligent tome on the importance of comics and the language of the medium is required reading for any comics aficionado or anyone new to the format. (c) Copyright 2012. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

Part deconstruction, part literary analysis, and part technical explanation, McCloud's introduction to sequential art is rendered in the format of the traditional graphic novel.