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. In Reinventing Comics, McCloud took this to the next level, charting twelve different revolutions in how comics are generated, read, and perceived today. 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. 'Magnificent! The best how-to manual ever published.' - Kevin Kelly, Cool Tools The renowned author of Understanding Comics offers brilliant instruction on how to actually create this widely beloved art form.editor and publisher Gary Groth wrote a critique of Reinventing Comics in 2001. Here, McCloud cited various successful webcomics that pushed the envelope, such as Daniel Merlin Goodbrey's work with the 'Tarquin Engine' and Drew Weing's Pup Contemplates the Heat Death of the Universe. Ī revised version of Reinventing Comics was released in 2009. In an interview with Joe Zabel, McCloud stated that he was so eager to get to the second half of the book that he rushed through the first portion. Because of the low power of the machine he was using, McCloud had a difficult time working on the book.

McCloud drew Reinventing Comics digitally, using a small Wacom tablet. In particular, he considers his webcomic I Can't Stop Thinking to be a continuation of Reinventing Comics, though he has continued to write about the future of comics in many different forms, as he acknowledges Reinventing Comics is 'a product of its time'. Īs promised in the book, McCloud has offered annotations, addenda and his further-developing thoughts about the future of comics on his website. The book caused considerable controversy in the comics industry, McCloud famously noting that it had been described as 'dangerous'. Reinventing Comics explains twelve 'revolutions' which McCloud predicts are necessary for the comic book to survive as a medium, focusing especially on online comics and CD-ROM comics. Paradox Press, formerly an imprint of DC Comics, is now defunct and William Morrow is now a division of HarperCollins, so subsequent printings of the book have been released by HarperCollins. Reinventing Comics was released in 2000 in separate editions published by Paradox Press and William Morrow Paperbacks. It is a thematic sequel to his critically acclaimed Understanding Comics, and was followed by Making Comics. Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form (2000) is a book written by comic book writer and artist Scott McCloud.

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