Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, this innovative comic book provides a detailed look at the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning.

This comic book provides a detailed look at the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning.

Examines comics as an art form by detailing the process of how comics are created by combining writing, art, genre, trends, subject matter, and themes.

Traces the 3,000 year history of storytelling through pictures, discussing the language and images used.

"You must read this book." --Neil Gaiman 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.

In this book you will: "take a magic carpet ride through the hidden worlds of comics storytelling ; witness a history more than 3,000 years old ; explore the secrets between the panels ; feel the energy of line and color ; tap into the power of symbols ; get a ring-side seat for the battle of words and pictures ; and most of all, see why comics can be as vital and important as film, prose or any other art form, through the fascinating process that leads to really understanding comics".

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.

This comic book about comics is an examination of the art-form of comics, what it is capable of and how it works. It also answers questions such as: How do we define comics? What are the basic elements of comics? How does the mind process the language of comics?

Provides a detailed look at the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning. In comic book format.

In comic book format, McCloud explains the various elements of comics style, history, energy, symbols.

Presented in comic strip form, explores the history, symbolism, technique and content of the comic strip genre.

This book traces the 3,000-year history of storytelling through pictures, discussing the language and images used. It 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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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud (1994)

The history of comics in a comic book format.

Examines comics as an art form by detailing the process of how comics are created by combining writing, art, genre, trends, subject matter, and themes. Traces the 3,000 year history of storytelling through pictures, discussing the language and images used

The author guides us through the elements of comics style, and ... how words combine with pictures to work their singular magic.

Examines the art-form of comics, how they are defined, how we understand them, and more.

In this witty and illuminating book, the author uses a comic book to explain and analyze the medium of comic books themselves. This ultimate book about comics dissects the art form and shows how words, lines, colors, symbols, panels and pictures all come together to create a unique and one-of-a-kind storytelling experience.

This comic book about comics is an examination of the art-form of comics, what it is capable of and how it works. It also answers questions such as: How do we define comics? What are the basic elements of comics? How does the mind process the language of comics?Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, this innovative comic book provides a detailed look at the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning.

Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, this innovative comic book provides a detailed look at the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning. It traces the 3,000 year history of storytelling through pictures, discussing the language and images used.

La obra analiza la teoria del comic como forma artística y medio de comunicación, explorando su definición, el desarrollo histórico del medio, su vocabulario y las diversas formas en las que se ha usado esos elementos. Es un libro de comics sobre el propio medio y sus mecanismos internos, a la par que examina numerosos aspectos de la comunicación visual.