Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

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Reading Understanding Comics makes comics sound like highbrow pieces of art and maybe that is how we should view them. Instead of thinking about comics as a lowbrow medium, it is about time we experience the art and what it can tell us. In this book six major ideas around the art. Idea/purpose, form, idiom/style, structure, craft and surface; explaining how they can all work together to make great pieces. McCloud has followed up Understanding Comics with Reinventing Comics (2000), in which he suggested ways for the medium to change and grow; and Making Comics (2006), a study of methods of constructing comics.

Here are Understanding comics citations for five popular citation styles: MLA, APA, Chicago (notes-bibliography), Chicago (author-date), and Harvard style. Citation Style Holy shit! I'm starting a graphic novel book club!! This is our inaugural book and I'm so excited!!! The 24-Hour Comic - The Phenomenon". www.scottmccloud.com. Archived from the original on 2023-02-05 . Retrieved 2023-02-05.

Overview

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. Understanding Comics was parodied by Dylan Sisson in his Filibusting Comics: The Next Chapter, published by Fantagraphics in 1995, and later translated into Spanish. [16]

Ben Hammersley (August 7, 2003). "Making the web pay". The Guardian. Archived from the original on February 5, 2023 . Retrieved March 5, 2007. In 2000, McCloud published Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form, in which he outlined twelve "revolutions" taking place, that he argued would be keys to the growth and success of comics as a popular and creative medium.

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Expressionism is a major influence on comics. The book shows different ways that comics artists can convey mood and appeal to the readers’ senses. McCloud analyzes how emotion is conveyed through use of images, either with or without the addition of word balloons and sound effects. He believes that if comics were made more sophisticated and appealing, they would be taken more seriously by adult readers and literary critics alike. Chapter 1, Setting the Record Straight