Thursday, 1 November 2012

Understanding Comics

If you want to really understand comics and graphic novels, as an art form, a good book to read is Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud:


It's become something of a classic and I came across this edition while sorting through the books in the shop. It takes you through a very thorough analysis of the art form. For example,

why is it easier to relate to this: rather than this?:

(Ugleeeee!) It's because we don't really have a good image of what we look like in our heads, just a rough sketch, as we only look at ourselves once or twice a day, whereas we are always looking at other people.

Scott McCloud also wrote a comic for Google as a guide to the Chrome browser.

I also found a complete set of Paul Chadwick's Concrete:


It's a good story drawn in a brilliant style and highly recommended especially for those new to the genre.

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