- SKU: 9780060780944
- BARCODE: 9780060780944
- VENDOR: BooksCloud
Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels - Paperback
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Description
by Scott McCloud (Author)
"Magnificent! The best how-to manual ever published." -- Kevin Kelly, Cool Tools
The renowned author of Understanding Comics offers brilliant instruction on how to actually create this widely beloved art form.
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 creation of comics, from the broadest principles to the sharpest details (like how to accentuate a character's facial muscles in order to form the emotion of disgust rather than the emotion of surprise.) And he does all of it in his inimitable voice and through his cartoon stand-in narrator, mixing dry humor and legitimate instruction. McCloud shows his reader how to master the human condition through word and image in a brilliantly minimalistic way. Both comic book devotees and the uninitiated will marvel at this journey into a once-underappreciated art form.
Front Jacket
Learn How to . . .
- Choose the right moments to clarify and strengthen your stories.
- Frame actions and guide your readers' eyes through each comics page.
- Choose words and pictures that communicate together.
- Create varied and compelling new characters.
- Master body language and facial expressions.
- Create rich, believable worlds for your readers to explore.
- Pick the tools that are right for you.
- Navigate the vast world of comics styles and genres.
Back Jacket
Learn How to . . .
- Choose the right moments to clarify and strengthen your stories.
- Frame actions and guide your readers' eyes through each comics page.
- Choose words and pictures that communicate together.
- Create varied and compelling new characters.
- Master body language and facial expressions.
- Create rich, believable worlds for your readers to explore.
- Pick the tools that are right for you.
- Navigate the vast world of comics styles and genres.
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