"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.

Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels

Arts & Photography

McCLOUD, Scott

History & Criticism

William Morrow Paperbacks

In 1993, Scott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture with the acclaimed international hit Understanding Comics, a massive comic book that explored the inner workings of the worlds most misunderstood art form. Now, McCloud takes comics to the next level, charting twelve different revolutions in how comics are created, read, and perceived today, and how they're poised to conquer the new millennium.
Part One of this fascinating and in-depth book includes:
<ul>
<li>The life of comics as an art form and as literature</li>
<li>The battle for creators' rights</li>
<li>Reinventing the business of comics</li>
<li>The volatile and shifting public perceptions of comics</li>
<li>Sexual and ethnic representation on comics</li>
</ul>
Then in Part Two, McCloud paints a breathtaking picture of comics' digital revolutions, including:
<ul>
<li>The intricacies of digital production</li>
<li>The exploding world of online delivery</li>
<li>The ultimate challenges of the infinite digital canvas</li>
</ul>

Reinventing Comics: The Evolution of an Art Form

"You must read this book." —Neil Gaiman 
The bestselling international classic on storytelling and visual communication
Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics is a seminal examination of comics art: its rich history, surprising technical components, and major cultural significance. Explore the secret world between the panels, through the lines, and within the hidden symbols of a powerful but misunderstood art form.

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

Teen & Young Adult

From comics pioneer Scott McCloud, the complete black and white collection of Zot!, featuring never-before-seen artwork and extensive commentary by the author
Long before manga took the American comics market by storm, Scott McCloud (Understanding Comics, Making Comics) combined the best ideas from manga, alternative comics, and superheroes into Zot!—a frenetic and innovative exploration of comics' potential that helped set the stage for McCloud's later groundbreaking theoretical work.
Zachary T. Paleozogt lives in "the far-flung future of 1965," a utopian Earth of world peace, robot butlers, and flying cars. Jenny Weaver lives in an imperfect world of disappointment and broken promises—the Earth we live in. Stepping across the portals to each other's worlds, Zot and Jenny's lives will never be the same again.
Now, for the first time since its original publication more than twenty years ago, every one of McCloud's pages from the black and white series has been collected in this must-have commemorative edition for aficionados to treasure and new fans to discover.

Zot!: The Complete Black and White Collection: 1987-1991

Comics & Graphic Novels

Manga

It Books

Zot! Special Edition: The Complete Black and White Collection: 1987-1991

Graphic Novels

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Traces the 3,000 year history of storytelling through pictures, discussing the language and images used.

Understanding Comics

Turtleback Books

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Explains how digital revolutions are affecting the comic strip business, from the artist's creation of the comic strips to the distribution of the finished product to the consumers.

Reinventing Comics: How Imagination And Technology Are Revolutionizing An Art Form (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman, Matt Groening, and Will Eisner, this innovative comic book provides a detailed look at the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning.

Kitchen Sink Pr

Traces the 3,000 year history of storytelling through pictures, discussing the language and images used

Understanding comics: The invisible art

How To Create Comics & Manga

Tundra Pub.

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Books by McCLOUD, Scott

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Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels

Reinventing Comics: The Evolution of an Art Form

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

Zot!: The Complete Black and White Collection: 1987-1991

Zot! Special Edition: The Complete Black and White Collection: 1987-1991

Understanding Comics

Reinventing Comics: How Imagination And Technology Are Revolutionizing An Art Form (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

Understanding Comics

Understanding comics: The invisible art