- ISBN13: 9780060780944
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
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 cr… More >>
Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels
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#1 by Rick Shambles on April 19, 2010 - 12:39 am
Scott McCloud is known best for his masterpiece, Understanding Comics. Whereas Understanding Comics clarified and simplified the principles of comics in a universally appealing way, Making Comics succeeds at removing the screws and getting into the cogs and gears that keep juxtapozed-pictorial-and-other-images-in-deliberate-sequence ticking.
That understood, this isn’t really a book for someone that isn’t interested in making comics, because most of the information within isn’t easily applied to other disciplines, media, or general understanding of our own cognitive processes–at least not in the ways it so successfully did in Understanding Comics. That being said, the book also doesn’t seem to offer a lot of useful information for the thoughtful veteran of comics creation, either. It’s a bit like he’s describing the subconscious actions that go with driving a car, but those won’t necessarily make you a better driver.
Making Comics is definitely worth a gander, though–it’s important to realize that even an average performance by Scott McCloud is quite well-done.
Rating: 4 / 5
#2 by Mr. Andrew K. Koerbin on April 19, 2010 - 2:35 am
Excellent book – very well presented and detailed. Well worth the price. Our kids (9 and 7) are using it to create better comics
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Irene Mireles Camacho on April 19, 2010 - 2:43 am
OUT THERE, ARE NOT BETTER BOOK THA THIS ABOUT MAKING COMICS, NO ONE, THIS IS THE BEST
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by B. Dargan on April 19, 2010 - 2:52 am
Great introduction to making comics. Great presentation. It explains the intricacies of the medium very well for a beginner.
Developing the skills to create good stories or improve your drawing skills need to be sought outside this book. There are some good looking references for these. While I can understand drawing being left out, would have been nice to go through some plot/story development.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by M. Riccitelli on April 19, 2010 - 4:00 am
What I like about this book is the fact that it is not only instructional for comic book artists but also for all artists. He writes and draws to enhance what he is teaching so that it is not even noticed by the reader that he is being taught. I have met Scott and he is as entertaining and funny in person as he is in his book.
Rating: 5 / 5