"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

Scott-McCloud

History & Criticism

Harper

Collecting the first ten issues of the classic superhero series in full color, with a new introduction by Kurt Busiek.

Scott McCloud's Zot, Book 1

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Kitchen Sink Press

SC, TPB, New, Story and art byScott McCloud. Intcludes: "Call of the Wild," "Can't Buy Me Love," "The Ghost in the Machine" and "Ring in the New!". Published in July of 1998. Softcover, B&amp;W. Cover price $19.95.

Scott McCloud's Zot! Book 3: Issues 16, 21-27

Kitchen Sink Pr

Zot is Scott McCloud's critically acclaimed take on superhero comics, and was one of the greatest cult comics of the '80s. For the first time, the first ten issues of this intelligent and charming series are collected into one massive full-color volume. See what everyone from Comics Buyer's Guide to The New York Times has raved about

Zot!

Scott McCloud's ZOT! Volume 2 (Hardcover) (Volume 2)

Zot! : Zot Book 3 : Issues 16, 21-27

Comic Strips

Contains annotations, plots, interviews, and scripts by comics scribes Otto Binder, Peter David, Mark Evanier, Bill Mumy &amp; Miguel Ferrer, Judd Winick, and others. Includes illustrated scripts by Mike Baron and Scott McCloud. Features commentary on how to illustrate from comics scripts by artists Steve Lieber and Pop Mhan.

Panel Two: More Comic Book Scripts By Top Writers (Panel One Scripts by Top Comics Writers Tp (New Prtg))

Bill Mumy

Nat Gertler

JUDD WINICK

Mark Evanier

Miguel Ferrer

Peter, David

About Comics

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<li>The challenge: create an entire 24-page comic book in 24 consecutive hours. Hundreds of cartoonists have taken this challenge, turning out works that were amazing, amusing, or revelatory. Four-time Harvey Award and Eisner Award winner Scott McCloud, comicdom's top theoretician and inventor of the 24-hour comic, explains the concept and presents nine of the best.</li> <li>Includes stories by Neil Gaiman, Al Davison, and more.</li>
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24 Hour Comics

Alexander Grecian

Steve Bissette

Neil, Gaiman

Al Davison

Literature & Fiction

Well-known comics creators take comicdom's greatest challenge: to completely write and draw a full 24 page comics story in 24 straight hours. A combination of energetic improvisational effort and a marathon effort, the 24 hour comics challenge is a rite of passage in the comics field. Stories include: 
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<li>The very first 24 hour comic, created by Scott McCloud (Understanding Comics), comicdom's leading theoretician and inventor of the challenge.</li> <li>Instead of doing one 24 page story, former X-Men artist Paul Smith (Leave It to Chance) created six shorter stories totaling 24 pages, including the true tale of his father's capture and rescue during World War II.</li> <li>"Counter" by Mary Jane writer Sean McKeever is a tale of awakening in a slightly different dimension.</li> <li>Dave Sim provides "Bigger, Blacker Kiss," a story created in the midst of his work on the recently completed 300 issue opus Cerebus the Aardvark.</li> <li>Tone Rodriguez, the artist of The Adventures of Snake Plissken, provides an original science fiction action adventure.</li> <li>And more!</li>
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24 Hour Comics All-Stars

Dave Sim

Tone Rodriguez

Tom Hart

Sean McKeever

Chris Eliopoulos

Paul, Smith

Understanding Comics

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.

Children's Books

Paw Prints 2008-04-18

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