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The bestselling international classic on storytelling and visual communication
“You will have to read this book.” — Neil Gaiman
Praised all through 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 name of the game world between the panels, through the lines, and within the hidden symbols of a powerful but misunderstood art form.
A comic book about comic books. McCloud, in an incredibly accessible style, explains the main points of how comics work: how they are composed, read and understood. More than just a book about comics, this gets to the heart of how we take care of visual languages in general. “The possibility of comics is limitless and exciting!” writes McCloud. This will have to be required reading for each school teacher. Pulitzer Prize-winner Art Spiegelman says, “The most intelligent comics I’ve seen in a very long time.”