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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 books1,607 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 18, 2026
banger banger banger, este senhor vem sempre com os seus nerdy takes absolutamente eye opening sobre comics, tinha saudades dele
May 30, 2023
Ótimo como "Desvendando os quadrinhos". O título não engana, é voltado de fato para quem quer desenhar quadrinhos, chegando até a falar de materiais. Só achei que por vezes a conceituação fica um tanto complexa demais, mas para alguém que for de fato tomar como base para se aventurar nesse trabalho, é questão de se debruçar e tomar como material de estudo, mesmo, relendo várias vezes para compreender plenamente.
January 20, 2019
Incrível. Se você quer fazer quadrinhos está intimado a ler.
October 10, 2013
Muitíssimo recomendado para quem tem interesse em entender as técnicas por trás da arte de fazer quadrinhos. Fácil de ler e bastante educativo. Livro de cabeceira de qualquer aspirante a quadrinista.
December 22, 2015
Uma bíblia para quem, como eu, estiver com ganas de mergulhar de cabeça na concepção de uma novela gráfica.
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