Sliding Scale of Visuals Versus Dialogue: A major theme is how comic creators use words to complement or comment on pictures. Scott McCloud mentions that the extent to which words impact the pictures varies. He sees written words as a later "evolution" of pictures, and places both on his own sliding scale, the famous "Big Triangle," which is both big and a triangle.

Painting the Medium: The author often reinforces his points about how a certain style or technique can convey a certain meaning by demonstrating the technique in question. think about it: hamlet is completely consumed in his little world, and the stakes are all about what will happen to denmark and only denmark. and centuries later, we still perform the play and read it and think that that is us up there struggling with our problems, just with a different name. Understanding Comics won multiple Harvey Awards in 1994 for Best Graphic Album/Original Material [12] and Best Biographical, Historical or Journalistic Presentation. [12] In addition, McCloud won the 1994 Harvey Award for Best Writer. [12] Understanding Comics received praise from notable comic and graphic novel authors such as Art Spiegelman, Will Eisner, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, and Garry Trudeau (who reviewed the book for the New York Times). [4] Although the book has prompted debate over many of McCloud’s conclusions, [5] its discussions of "iconic" art and the concept of "closure" between panels have become common reference points in discussions of the medium. [6] [7] Dear comic art - Don't overestimate yourself, not because you're insignificant. Yes you have a long history indeed, and we 'understand' you're not just some flat tone sexist superhero adventure, and that you can be as postmodern as any other art school asshole graduate. Message received.Winter was born immediately following Con in 1995. She pointed out the other day that she’d been to every single day of Con held during her lifetime. So Wednesday’s Preview Night is a must, to say the least…

This is an indispensable and fundamentally exhaustive exploration of the comics medium presented in the medium itself. While it presents some fairly complex ideas of "how comics work" McCloud uses the medium itself to good effect to demonstrate his meaning. Holy shit! I'm starting a graphic novel book club!! This is our inaugural book and I'm so excited!!! despite all that, it's definitely a worthwhile read for comics aficionados. i just wasn't crazy about it. The book was called "one of the most insightful books about designing graphic user interfaces ever written" by Apple Macintosh co-creator Andy Hertzfeld. [15] [ undue weight? – discuss] Parodies [ edit ] You may also opt to downgrade to Standard Digital, a robust journalistic offering that fulfils many user’s needs. Compare Standard and Premium Digital here.She was my “muse” in the old, romantic sense; a force of life and love, an inspiration. She inspired characters in my work (especially and explicitly Meg in The Sculptor), and she was also a muse for the hundreds of young actors she taught and directed over the years in local children’s theatre productions. I remember when this book came out in 1993. My fifteen year old self scoffed. "I've been reading comics for years. What can this book teach me?" Twenty five years later and a thousand comics later, on the heels of rereading Zot!, I decided to finally give it a shot. I was apprehensive at first since you really have to scrape to find a negative review of Understanding Comics. Did so many people like it or were they afraid to admit they didn't? ONE (18 February 2014). One-Punch Man. Vol.1. Yusuke Murata (illus.). VIZ Media LLC. ISBN 978-1-4215-6749-5.