Understanding Comics

The Invisible Art

About this book

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.

Subjects

  • art
  • authorship
  • basic reader
  • cartoon
  • cartooning
  • cartoons and caricatures
  • cartoons and comics
  • cartoons as topic
  • comic books
  • comic books, strips
  • comic books, strips, etc., history and criticism
  • comics
  • dessin humoristique
  • entreprises de presse
  • historietas
  • history and criticism
  • humor, form, comic strips & cartoons
  • illustrations
  • juvenile literature
  • long now manual for civilization
  • manga
  • modern literature
  • periodicals
  • publishing
  • sequential
  • sequential art
  • story
  • strips
  • technique