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Kako nastane strip (The Comic Books #3)

by Scott McCloud, Maša Peče (Translator)

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Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics was published in 1993, just as "Comics Aren't Just for Kids Anymore!" articles were starting to appear and graphic novels were making their way into the mainstream, and it quickly gave the newly respectable medium the theoretical and practical manifesto it needed. With his clear-eyed and approachable analysis--done using the same comics...more

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Mar 25, 2007 Aaron rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Pencilers, Manga-ka, nerds, dorks, geeks, spazzes, dweebs, me

The frustrating thing about how authoritative McCloud is is the fact that he's essentially right about everything. I've read it half-a-dozen times, and I'm doing the chapter exercises, and I'm very angry about how correct he often is.

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Sep 14, 2012 Carlos rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Scott McCloud propone con Making Comics una visión para aspirantes a profesionales del cómic que ojalá todos leyesen. También sus lectores, ya que proporciona un marco de referencia nada dogmático pero inestimable para comprenderlos y valorarlos. Y lo hace con màs claridad expositiva, espíritu didáctico y modestia que ningún ensayista de cualquier tema que haya leído nunca.

Sólo por esta lección sería obligado, pero además sus reflexiones son acertadas, ¡y sentatas!. Autor de la apreciada y exit...more

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Dec 06, 2010 Eric rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: comics artists or fans

Shelves: comics, nonfiction, how-to, art

This is an excellent book for anyone who is interested in making comics, or just learning about the theory behind them.

Scott McCloud lays out the fundamental building blocks and questions behind creating a comic, and covers them in depth. He eschews questions of technical execution and personal style in favor of theory and design.

He covers communication, pacing, framing, and transitions in excellent detail. His chapter on the tools available is more brief, but gives a beginning cartoonist enough...more

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Jan 16, 2012 Sylvia rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is the third in a series of massive comic books about the art and theory of comic books, following Understanding Comics (1993) and Reinventing Comics (2001). In this book, Mr. McCloud sets out to provide the bedrock principles for making great comics: clarity and communication (including five choices a comic artist must make - moment, frame, image, word, and flow); connecting to readers through character design, facial expressions, and body language; the power of combining words with pictur...more

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Mar 29, 2011 Juan rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Si hay algo evidente en los libros que Scott McCloud ha escrito acerca de los cómics es que de verdad ama a ese medio. Este libro parte de los principios, análisis y teoría expuestos por McCloud en Understanding Comics para explicar ahora cómo se hace un cómic.
Desde las ideas abstractas e intuitivas como el ritmo y fluyo de la historia, hasta los aspectos técnicos del dibujo y las herramientas que se usan para crear una página de cómic. Todo explicado de la manera más lógica posible: a través de...more

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Mar 28, 2011 Trey rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I've always wondered why the master of explaining comics has never achieved the status of master of creating comics. Scott McCloud admits as much in the first few pages of "Making Comics," and I assumed for most of the book that it's a case of "those who can't do teach." If he had the innate ability to put great ideas on paper, maybe he wouldn't have the time (or the ability) to analyze comics so well. Towards the end, though, McCloud mentions another factor that may be holding him back when he...more

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Sep 06, 2009 Sofia rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Comic book readers and artists

Shelves: graphic-novels, art

Being rather new to the comics world (I only started reading them more steadily last year), I was eager to know more about the medium, and various online searches kept pointing to Understanding Comics The Invisible Art (also by Scott McCloud) as a great starting point. Unfortunately, at the time I set out to buy it it was unavailable, so I settled for this one instead.

I have to say I loved it! It really opened my eyes to a lot of details I was missing, or rather, things that I was aware of on an...more

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Dec 27, 2012 Michael Scott rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: comics, graphic-novels, teaching, my-favs, art

Making Comics is a sequel to Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics (by thirteen years): it introduces and discusses the process, the main techniques, and important examples of creating comics, mangas, and graphic novels. Overall, it first sated my appetite for learning how to make comics, than left me wanting more. Easily one of my favorite books on the topic.

Interestingly, the actual making of comics, that is, working with physical tools (from pencil to computer software) and being part of the b...more Making Comics is a sequel to Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics (by thirteen years): it introduces and discusses the process, the main techniques, and important examples of creating comics, mangas, and graphic novels. Overall, it first sated my appetite for learning how to make comics, than left me wanting more. Easily one of my favorite books on the topic.

Interestingly, the actual making of comics, that is, working with physical tools (from pencil to computer software) and being part of the business, is left for the end. From the last third of the book, about half is dedicated to a description of pen-and-paper tools and of computer tools, and another fifth to being employed by the comics industry (in the US); the remainder, which covers style and logically belongs just after the core techniques, is sandwiched between tools and business.

The part on style is alone worth the book: in it, Scott not only discusses broadly what constitutes style, but also the main styles currently available in the world market. He analyzes the North American market and argues for which different elements of style work together. He presents a (somewhat unfinished) analysis of the manga culture, with a focus on Shojo (emotional) and Shonen (action-oriented). He discusses on genre birth and evolution. Good stuff!

Now back to the beginning of the book, in which, for 180 pages, Scott McCloud lectures on converting a story to images, creating stories (for humans), the relationship between text and graphics, and world building. I found the first and the last topics the most compelling; the others have some overlaps with Understanding Comics. The notion of "five choices"---of moment, frame, image, word, and flow---was interesting, and perhaps taken from the theory of film-making. (I've also met similar ideas in Dream Worlds Production Design for Animation, The Art of Howl's Moving Castle, and other books about animation and motion pictures, but Scott McCloud does an excellent job of adapting this topic to comics.)

I should mention the extra depth, the notes, and the exercises: they are well worth the time. Throughout each chapter dedicated to the core techniques and elements of drawing comics, Scott adds short sections of analysis, additional information, or just plain musing on. At the end of each chapter, there are detailed notes which, albeit somewhat difficult to trace back to the panel they refer to, add much to the graphical material. The exercises at the end of each chapter are stimulating, and I found myself doodling not only once; too bad they interrupt your reading flow. (less)

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Jul 01, 2011 Chip'sBookBinge rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

With Making Comics, a book on how to put together your very own Comic Book, Scott McCloud has done it again. This book is the one to get if you are really serious about diving head first into the world of self publishing your own Comic's. Within' the pages here you will get a lot of practical knowledge of how and why certain shots are used and what type of panels to use when telling your stories. Scott goes into the theory of the in's and outs about all thing relating to the meaning behind a pag...more

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Mar 12, 2012 mona rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: nonfiction, comics

After reading Scott McCloud’s Making Comics I have a much deeper appreciation for artists who produce comic books, manga, and graphic novels. There is the story to be told, drawings to illustrate, and dialogue to create… all with style. McCloud, a comic book artist with over twenty years under his belt, has written a guide for aspiring comic book artists in creating their own works – and he has largely done so humorously in comic book form. Discusses unique use of panels to tell a story, tools o...more

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Mar 10, 2011 Spoonbridge rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: library-book, comics, writing

I have been on a bit of a graphic novel and comic reading kick lately, raiding the library collections for any titles that sound interesting and devouring them at a rather manic rate. Traditionally, I never really considered myself a comic fan, preferring prose, but something about the elegance of the “artful combination of words and pictures” has really intrigued me. Beginning with autobiographical and other small press comics, I’ve been enjoying more and more graphic novels. Then, thinking bac...more I have been on a bit of a graphic novel and comic reading kick lately, raiding the library collections for any titles that sound interesting and devouring them at a rather manic rate. Traditionally, I never really considered myself a comic fan, preferring prose, but something about the elegance of the “artful combination of words and pictures” has really intrigued me. Beginning with autobiographical and other small press comics, I’ve been enjoying more and more graphic novels. Then, thinking back on my childhood, in spite of my disinterest in “super heroes” I had long been a huge fan of comics like “Calvin and Hobbes” and other strips, realizing that I had always appreciated the form. Reading more widely, in the various styles and genres of the form has even inspired me to look into making a comic or graphic novel of my own (my own lack of artistic talent notwithstanding). This is where I picked up “Making Comics” by Scott McCloud.

A very interesting read, even for more than people looking for advice on working on their own graphic novel. McCloud details many insights that I had not thought about regarding the behind the scenes creation of comics, graphic novels, and other “pictures in sequence.” “Making Comics” is not a simple “how-to” book, but an examination of the creative processes unique to comic creation, told from McCloud’s own point of view and including examples from the diversity of the art form, from manga to edgy, experimental small press works. From choices of imagery, pacing, and composition to character design, to categories of word/picture combinations, McCloud details many aspects of creation I had not conceived of before. I will look for these various choices and differences when reading the work of other artists, even if I never begin work of my own. The chapter describing tools, techniques, and technology was particularly interesting for me, but it must be said that “Making Comics” is not really geared towards beginners looking for the basics of drawing and writing, though many such works are suggested by McCloud in the detailed notes and bibliography. However, it is also a unique guide to comics design that is useful for anyone interested in analyzing graphic novels, even if they are not artists or writers themselves. Throughout, I found the book entirely readable, even when discussing the vagaries of style and design. I particularly enjoyed McCloud’s essays about understanding genres and comic culture, which arranges all comics by their values; classicists, animists, formalists, and iconoclasts. I have not read any of Scott McCloud’s other works, but I will definitely look at them as well.
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Dec 18, 2012 Matt rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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I've always been a fan of the way Scott McCloud explains things, even if he can occasionally over-simplify. Making Comics is like a grand overview of the thing itself, but it's less about the industry and more about what considerations go into the process as an artist and storyteller. While thIs book is an overview, a bibliography and extensive list of references offer an easy opportunity to delve deeper into almost any subject presented. While I think his discussions on expressin emotions and h...more

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May 22, 2012 Kathleen rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: comics-sequential-art

I was happy to find this- really extensive and covered all the topics I would have thought to include in the subject of "making comics" plus a few more. I think, now this is just a thought here, that what makes McCloud's books such classics is due at least in part to the fact that McCloud's personableness and charm comes through very clear through his work-- you feel like you know him, like he's talking to a friend. He's super un-pretentious and admits from time to time that he isn't 100% sure a...more

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Mar 14, 2011 Wilhelm Steiner rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

'Understanding Comics' is one of the best books made about comics and their process so far, so 'Making Comics' does have a tough competitor.

For me, 'Making Comics' is a really awesome book, but its far less universal then its pre-predecessor. While 'Understanding Comics' was written for everyone who is interested in this visual art, 'Making Comics' has a more narrow audience.

Nonetheless it is a great, inspiring book with lots of information packed in a visually dazzling way and its quite a fun...more

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Sep 09, 2009 Kris rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: artists who want to create comics

Shelves: own

Scott McCloud delves into his two decades of comic-creating experience to provide this book of useful insights into the art of making comics. This is not a how-to-draw book; instead, McCloud instructs us in the effects of various storytelling and graphic techniques. He also gives a bit of insight into comic creator culture and comics as a career.

Making Comics is a valuable reference for anyone creating their own comics or wanting to do so. The book seems to make the assumption of intermediate to...more

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Feb 21, 2013 Kazen rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A wonderful look at what goes into a comic, from perspective and line to story and style. I learned a lot and gained even more appreciation for an art form that I already respected.

The ebook version is not recommended, however. I read an epub from my library using Overdrive on an iPad and the text was a tad too small to read comfortably. The notes after each chapter were written in McCloud's lettering font and it translated to ALL CAPS ALL THE TIME in the file. Annoying to say the least.

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Jan 24, 2009 Erik rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Although I was never a huge fan of his retro-esque work on the 80s Zot!, Scott McCloud has become – in my eyes – the hero of modern comic book structural theory and analysis. And one heck of an effective writer and artist at conveying the hidden truths of this ever-developing medium, I might add. He is neither condescending nor intellectually ambiguous – despite his evident braininess.

As the author/artist of two earlier ground-breaking works – Understanding and Reinventing Comics (both of which...more Although I was never a huge fan of his retro-esque work on the 80s Zot!, Scott McCloud has become – in my eyes – the hero of modern comic book structural theory and analysis. And one heck of an effective writer and artist at conveying the hidden truths of this ever-developing medium, I might add. He is neither condescending nor intellectually ambiguous – despite his evident braininess.

As the author/artist of two earlier ground-breaking works – Understanding and Reinventing Comics (both of which I devoured a decade back when they were first published) – McCloud does what few in this arena have done before (with the sole exception of the late great Will Eisner): Deconstruct the medium of comics and graphic novels through the medium itself. Which, I might add, he uses in a brilliant and clever way when he illustrates – quite literally – its myriad structural techniques.

The first three chapters detail his theory behind the five structural choices (moment, frame, image, word, and flow) that the writer and artist must consider, human expression and body language that the artist must attend to, and then to the written word that the author must select for greatest effect (which may be maximized by using no words at all). These chapters, in my estimation, comprise the brainiest and most theoretical portion of the book – which may just put artistic and intellectual novices to sleep.

The last half of McCloud’s treatise focuses on world building (best exemplified in manga and more modern American comics like Watchmen and most Vertigo and indie titles), the tools of the trade (which whet my appetite for those care-free days of the 80s when I would sit down at my drawing table and pen and ink voluminous tales of super-heroics and science fiction), and genres of the three over-lapping mediums (comics, manga, and graphic novels).

If you ever held the disparaging opinion that comics are the daytime trash of the publishing industry, think again. Pick up any of McCloud’s three volumes deconstructing this under-praised and –acknowledged medium. And then pick up any one of the Eisner or Harvey winners in recent times (The Sandman, Bone, Eightball, et al.), and prepare to be awed.
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Jan 08, 2013 Kevin Soini rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: aspiring cartoonists/ comic artists

This book is so helpful well written that I'll be using it in the curriculum of the self-study MFA program I'm putting together for myself in comics.

McCloud, who admits that he has done much of his drafting by computer for some time, has taught us the philosophy behind graphic storytelling in his well-known previous classic "Understanding Comics." Here the theory is applied, and if you read and emulate carefully enough, you'll be on the way to becoming a comics artist yourself.

I'd definitely ad...more

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Oct 27, 2011 Sri rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: comic-graphicnovel-picturebook

Kuliah berikutnya oleh Scott McCloud.
Setelah membaca buku ini jadi tau 'genre'-nya komik. Jadi ngeh kalau komik-komik yang aku sukai sebenarnya yang berasal dari 'kaum' animist dan iconoclast.
Sedangkan untuk komik-komik dari classicist dan formalist, sebenarnya aku kurang suka. Tapi gambarnya biasanya memang luar biasa sehingga mau tak mau harus memberi minimal 4 bintang juga :D. Seperti halnya graphic novel yang baru saja kubaca: The Arrival. Sebenarnya ceritanya biasa saja menurutku. Emosi tid...more

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Aug 13, 2012 Elizabeth rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

A brilliant book that really has me reconsidering how I view the medium. A friend and I launched our very first comic this year, and this book has been an incredible reference. A lot of Scott McCloud's insights touch on elements that have become intuitive to me as a longtime comic book reader, and his charming style illuminates many of the unspoken rules of the medium. Of course, knowing the rules means knowing the best time to break them, and he has great insights on that as well. Highly recomm...more

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Feb 17, 2012 Joseph McGee rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Recommended to Joseph by: Lisa Jahn-Clough

A MUST READ/HAVE for anyone who aspires to either write, draw, or write and draw graphic novels, comics, cartoons, etc. Although I very much enjoyed his first book, "Understanding Comics," I liked this one even better. Together they offer a great one-two punch. This book offers advice and an understanding for any style. McCloud offers an extensive list of resources from which to pursue continued education on the topic, but this book is a great foundation book. Again, an amazing resource for aspi...more

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Apr 06, 2009 Greg Pettit rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: comics, non-fiction

An interesting analysis of creating comics. It's a good starting point for discussing the theory behind comics, but in the end it was just sort of okay.

I am a big fan of McCloud's earlier work, Understanding Comics, and I would enthusiastically recommend that one to everyone, not just comic book readers. This new one, Making Comics, is more of a primer on the creative process behind comics. It doesn't delve as deep and is less thought-provoking. It is also riddled with references to that earlier...more

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Aug 01, 2008 Jamie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Magna, and Graphic Novels by Scott McCloud is, like his other books on related subjects, basically a non-fiction comic. It's a faintly academic treatment of sequential art using the comics medium itself. This works pretty well, as he's able to literally illustrate his points using his own comics and other drawings on the page. So when he talks about the six different kinds of panel-to-panel transition types, he does so by presenting a comic that use...more Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Magna, and Graphic Novels by Scott McCloud is, like his other books on related subjects, basically a non-fiction comic. It's a faintly academic treatment of sequential art using the comics medium itself. This works pretty well, as he's able to literally illustrate his points using his own comics and other drawings on the page. So when he talks about the six different kinds of panel-to-panel transition types, he does so by presenting a comic that uses each one. And it helps a great deal that McCloud's style is easy to read, engaging, and often entertaining.

McCloud is also a consumate classification geek, the kind of person who would get stomach cramps if he were to come across a pile of stuff and wasn't allowed to sort it, organize it, and develop a taxonomy to describe it. Like I said, his treatment of the process of making and understanding comics is a bit academic, and the book is full of diagrams, symbols, and the other models he creates in order to organize, distill, and communicate the nature of the medium. Even something as apparently simple as combining words and pictures gets broken out into a model for seven unique ways that words and pictures can be combined on the page: Word-Specific, Picture-Specific, Due-Specific, Intersecting, Interdependent, Parallel, and Montage.

This kind of thing really appeals to the geek & scientist parts of me even though I don't actually read comics, much less make them. But I occasionally like stepping outside my normal realms of expertise when I read, and this is kind of the same thing. Still, there were parts of the book that applies to one of my other hobbies. The parts that talk about frame composition, for example, are relevant to composing photographs. And the entire chapter on body language has some information that could be really useful if I ever get around to working with more human subjects.

All in all, it's a quick read and even if some of McCloud's models seem to be arbitrary classification for the sake of classification it's all done in a pretty readable and entertaining style. And, I suppose, you may walk away with a little more appreciation for all the work that goes on behind the scenes to make a really good comic. Hopefully.(less)

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Jan 21, 2010 Kristopher rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: comics, fiction

Read my review of both Understanding Comics and Making Comics at

I passed on the second book in McCloud's "trilogy," Reinventing Comics, because it seemed to be mostly focused on web comics, which I'm not really into. But the guy at my comic shop really recommended it, saying it was more of an overall history of the medium. I went ahead and got it. I guess we'll see.

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Feb 02, 2009 Firman Widyasmara rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Satu lagi bukunya Scott McCloud tentang cara membuat komik. Hampir seperti buku pendahulunya, buku ini mencoba mengakrabkan dri dengan pembaca dan menghajar pembaca bahwa membuat komik, membaca komik, ataupun memahami komik itu adalah mudah, mencerdaskan, dan mungkin seringkali membuat pusing. Haha, gimana gak pusing, bahasannya bisa ditarik jauh banget sampai berlembar lembar halaman, dengan konten yang edan, seperti baca textbook visual yang padat tapi menyenangkan.

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Mar 27, 2013 Peter rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Reminiscent of Understanding Comics in terms of the structure and the feeling of, well, understanding you get from reading. McCloud has done his homework and it feels like lots of different kinds of storytelling (not just comics) could be learned by reading this. As usual, he makes some pretty broad generalizations and categorizations, so always be armed with your pinch of salt. Nevertheless, the research is massive and well documented, and it feels like an excellent teaching guide, which is wha...more

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Aug 11, 2011 Ketan Shah added it · review of another edition

Scott McCloud hits it out of the park. An excellent follow up to Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics.It covers some of the same ground as the earlier volumes ,but with many more in depth examples.It makes you rethink how you look at comics,and revels the skill behind comic book storytelling that often seems effortless.Highly recommended..not just for comic book creators,but for anyone interested in telling stories.

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Nov 07, 2010 Rachel rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This was such a fun book to pick up and read a little bit at a time. I don't know whether or not McCloud recycled much of his material from Understanding Comics (haven't yet read it). I liked the idea and execution of illustrating how to make comics in comic book form. It lets the reader learn about comics in a freer way - through image as well as through text. I'd like to see more text books in comic book form, honestly.

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Sep 04, 2010 Tim Lapetino rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Excellent book on craft, storytelling and *why* visual narrative (of any kind) works. The fact that it's written about comic books, and that McCloud illustrates every principle he espouses just makes this "graphic novel" even better. Highly recommended, as McCloud's lessons about storytelling and communicating emotion in a sequential way are still crucial things for every designer and brand strategist to think about.

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Aug 01, 2011 Pippypippy Madden rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

An excellent resource for anyone who draws, full of information on tools and techniques. Also, contains excellent recommendations for further reading, broken down by topics, such as using perspective, drawing the figure, drawing anime, and learning to draw human expressions. McCloud also uses examples from female cartoonists- something not all comic drawing books do. Refreshing!
Read it! Its good for you!

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