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The Comic Books #3
Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels
"Magnificent! The best how-to manual ever published." — Kevin Kelly, Cool Tools
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.
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.
264 pages, Paperback
First published September 5, 2006
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Scott McCloud
132 books1,608 followersScott McCloud (born Scott McLeod) is an American cartoonist and theorist on comics as a distinct literary and artistic medium.
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May 29, 2019
Come fare davvero fumetti? Ecco tutti i trucchi, svelati da Scotto McCloud in un libro leggendario!
February 21, 2014
Saggio a fumetti sul fumetto.
Mentre l'analogo "capire il fumetto" sempre di McCloud è un saggio imperdibile questo, che ponendosi come manuale per aspiranti fumettisti analizza strumenti e tecniche, è molto inferiore e vende anche un po' di aria fritta. Resta comunque interessante per un appassionato.
Mi è piaciuta soprattutto la parte sugli strumenti tecnici usati per disegnare su carta o al pc, e la catalogazione delle espressioni facciali. Certo che McCloud è un vero nerd.
Mentre l'analogo "capire il fumetto" sempre di McCloud è un saggio imperdibile questo, che ponendosi come manuale per aspiranti fumettisti analizza strumenti e tecniche, è molto inferiore e vende anche un po' di aria fritta. Resta comunque interessante per un appassionato.
Mi è piaciuta soprattutto la parte sugli strumenti tecnici usati per disegnare su carta o al pc, e la catalogazione delle espressioni facciali. Certo che McCloud è un vero nerd.
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