Because comic art is so vast, it is essential to come up with a definition.
Before he was out of high school, he decided to pursue comics as a career and devoted himself to understanding them. Feazell’s doubtful response results in McCloud’s silence.Ĭhapter 1 of Understanding Comics is largely devoted to the history of graphic storytelling, beginning with McCloud’s personal history with comics.
When Feazell asks about McCloud’s next project, he describes an ambitious graphic work about comic theory. The introduction comprises a comic strip of a phone call between Scott McCloud and his friend Matt Feazell. “More than a how-to, the book goes beyond simple instruction, digging into the real dirt of creating comics.This guide is based on the 1994 HarperCollins version of the text. “A guide to creating comics that is as thoughtful and entertaining as the best-loved work in the field, both enjoyable and accessible to casual fans of the form and the new gold standard for artists who want to create their own comics, manga, and graphic novels. “Every aspect of comics creation is covered in this enlightening, accessible guide presented in a comic-strip format.” - Booklist (Editor's Choice)
Scott’s talent as a cartoonist not only makes him intimate to insights no outsider can see, but also gives him the power to show it to the world.” - Jeff Smith “Only Scott McCloud could have organized his thoughts on comics like this. “In this, McCloud’s third nonfiction book about comics, he has produced his most significant achievement to date, and that’s really saying something.” - Cory Doctorow “Scott McCloud’s brilliant treatise on the inner workings of cartoonists will delight amateur artists and curious fans alike.” - Salon Comic book devotees as well as the most uninitiated will marvel at this journey into a once–underappreciated art form. McCloud shows his reader how to master the human condition through word and image in a brilliantly minimalistic way. 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. In Reinventing Comics, McCloud took this to the next level, charting twelve different revolutions in how comics are generated, read, and perceived today. Scott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture in 1994 with Understanding Comics, a massive comic book about comics, linking the medium to such diverse fields as media theory, movie criticism, and web design.
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