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As all good card-carrying comic-book fans know, their sheer passion will never overcome narrow-minded critics and their baying cries of derision. There is far more to this perpetually underrated medium than a mix of art and prose. With this indispensable, spellbinding tome, writer/artist Scott McCloud rises to the challenge of dissecting what remains the most enigmatic of art forms. After all, says McCloud, "No other art form gives so much to its audience while asking so much from them as well". Over the course of 215 impeccably formed pages, McCloud joyously exposes and deconstructs a hidden world of icons in a most literate and valid manner. His charming guidance finds a place where Time and Space is effortlessly malleable and the reader is both a willing accomplice and necessary vessel for comics' singular magic. Cunningly presented in comic form, McCloud (or his comic equivalent) conducts a journey that spans thousands of years, taking in art from Prehistoric Man to the Egyptians to Van Gogh to Jack Kirby. Never has psychological and cultural analysis been so understandably clear, beautifully aided by clever visuals and his truly infectious love for the medium. By the end of this funny, charming, rare and exciting book, you'll not doubt the notion that a comic book "...is a vacuum into which our identity and awareness are pulled ... an empty shell that we inhabit which enables us to travel to another realm". A fine exchange for a little faith and a world of imagination. --Danny Graydon
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A comic book about comic books. McCloud, in an incredibly accessible style, explains the details of how comics work: how they're composed, read and understood. More than just a book about comics, this gets to the heart of how we deal with visual languages in general. "The potential of comics is limitless and exciting!" writes McCloud. This should be required reading for every school teacher. Pulitzer Prize-winner Art Spiegelman says, "The most intelligent comics I've seen in a long time."
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Scott McCloud has entertained readers with his wonderful comic, _Zot!_ Now he informs his readers in this, one of the greatest books on the psychology of comics ever written.
Shunning the usual nostalgic tone of most books written about comics, McCloud uses the comic format to discuss not the history of the X-Men, but rather the method of storytelling in which such characters are presented. He writes on a vast list of subjects, ranging from the meaning of the word "Comics" to the use of blank space between panels. The art style is simple where it needs to be and complex where it is required. The message comes across in panel after panel of information that is stated simply enough for everybody to understand, if they will only open their minds to these "Funny Books."
Scott McCloud's book is an invaluable resource. It allows you to stop merely reading comics, and start understanding them.
Shunning the usual nostalgic tone of most books written about comics, McCloud uses the comic format to discuss not the history of the X-Men, but rather the method of storytelling in which such characters are presented. He writes on a vast list of subjects, ranging from the meaning of the word "Comics" to the use of blank space between panels. The art style is simple where it needs to be and complex where it is required. The message comes across in panel after panel of information that is stated simply enough for everybody to understand, if they will only open their minds to these "Funny Books."
Scott McCloud's book is an invaluable resource. It allows you to stop merely reading comics, and start understanding them.
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I like to take things apart and figure out how they work, except instead of doing internal combustion engines or pocket watches I like to play with books, movies and television shows. In "Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art," Scott McCloud not only takes apart comic books, he puts them back together again. Certainly comics are a neglected art form. Put Superman, Batman, Spawn and Spider-Man on the big screen and there will be some cursory comments about the actual all-in-color-for-a-dime, and names like Stan Lee and Frank Miller will get kicked around, but nobody really talks about how comics work (the exception that proves the rule would be the Hughes brothers talking about adapting the "From Hell" graphic novels). Part of the problem is conceptual vocabulary: we can explain in excruciating detail how the shower scene in "Psycho" works in terms of shot composition, montage, scoring, etc. That sort of conceptual vocabulary really does not exist and McCloud takes it upon himself to pretty much create it from scratch.
That, of course, is an impressive achievement, especially since he deals with functions as well as forms. To that we add McCloud's knowledge of art history, which allows him to go back in time and find the origins of comics in pre-Columbian picture manuscripts, Egyptian hieroglyphics and the Bayeux Tapestry. Topping all of this off is McCloud's grand and rather obvious conceit, that his book about the art of comic books is done AS a comic book. This might seem an obvious approach, but that does not take away from the fact that the result is a perfect marriage of substance and form.
This volume is divided into nine chapters: (1) Setting the Record Straight, which develops a proper dictionary-style definition of "comics"; (2) The Vocabulary of Comics, detailing the iconic nature of comic art; (3) Blood in the Gutter, establishing the different types of transitions between frames of comic art, which are the building blocks of how comics work; (4) Time Frames, covers the ways in which comics manipulate time, including depictions of speed and motion; (5) Living in Line, explores how emotions and other things are made visible in comics; (6) Show and Tell, looks at the interchangeability of words and pictures in various combinations; (7) The Six Steps, details the path comic book creators take in moving from idea/purpose to form to idiom to structure to craft to surface (but not necessarily in that order); (8) A Word About Color, reminds us that even though this particular book is primarily in black & white, color has its uses in comic books; and (9) Putting It All Together, finds McCloud getting philosophical about the peculiar place of comic books in the universe.
"Understanding Comics" works for both those who are reading pretty much every comic book done by anyone on the face of the planet and those who have never heard of Wil Eisner and Art Spigelman, let alone recognize their artwork. Which ever end of the spectrum you gravitate towards McCloud incorporates brief examples of some of the artwork of the greatest comic book artists, such as Kirby, Herge, Schultz, etc., as well as work by more conventional artists, including Rembrandt, Hokusai, and Van Gogh. "Understanding Comics" is a superb look at the form and functions of the most underexplored art form in popular culture.
I am using Spider-Man comic books in my Popular Culture class this year and will be using some of McCloud's key points to help the cherubs in their appreciation of what they are reading. If you have devoted hundreds of hours of your life to reading comic books, then you can take a couple of hours to go through this book and have a better understanding and appreciation of why you take funny books so seriously.
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I am not a comic artist (or even a reader) but rather an information visualization scientist.
McCloud touches on some incredibly subtle issues around the composition and presentation of information visually, which I find unparalleled in any other work.
He addresses the duality of content and style (style as content?) and the issues of time and causality clearly and effectively.
I can't wait for REINVENTING COMICS.
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Was sie schon immer über Comics wissen wollten
"Understanding Comics" klärt über das Medium Comics auf und räumt Vorurteile aus dem Weg. Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 16 Monaten von F.Nerd veröffentlicht
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Dieses Sachbuch über Comics, das selbst wie ein Comics gestaltet ist, gibt einen kurzen, unterhaltsamen Überblick über die Geschichte des Comics und seine... Lesen Sie weiter...
Vor 18 Monaten von a.r. veröffentlicht
Sensationell gut!
UNDERSTANDING COMICS ist eines der faszinierensten Bücher, welches mir in letzter Zeit untergekommen ist! Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 10. März 2009 von Parsec
A Brilliant Look at the Psychology, Physiology, and Effectiveness of...
This is an important book that everyone should read. I would give it twenty stars if I could.
I've long been interested in both art and comic books (I have collected... Lesen Sie weiter...
I've long been interested in both art and comic books (I have collected... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 24. Juni 2008 von Donald Mitchell
Excellent Book
If you want to really understand comics, there are three books you simply must own. 'Understanding Comics' by Scott McCloud, 'Comics and Sequential Art' by Will Eisner, and 'How... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 3. Juli 2000 von Abbot Henderson
Can't wait
I simply loved every moment reading this one. I had read the Eisner book on comics, which is a must read and an excellent source for information for sure, but I really liked this... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 21. Juni 2000 von Jarmo Jomppanen
excelente y muy entendible
este libro, que trata sobre las posiblidades de los dibuijos y los disenos de diferentes formas, es muy entretenido ya que nos lleva por un mundo de dibujos donde el propio... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 16. Mai 2000 von Luis Méndez
Scoffers & outsiders, this is your entry to comics
Parents of kids who are into comics ... educators ... law enforcement officers ... ANYONE who deals with kids & teens or ANYONE who's mystified why some adult they know reads... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 4. Mai 2000 von James G. Greenhill
Brilliant
This book spells out alot of stuff that those who love comics have thought about but never been able to articulate. Understanding Comics is my favourite book. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 23. März 2000 von Long Pants
Deep and Clear
I expected this book to be a witty and well-done presentation of mostly stuff that I already knew; but it was much more than that. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 3. März 2000 von David M. Chess
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