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Overview: Scott McCloud, born as Scott McLeod on June 10, 1960, is an American cartoonist and comics theorist. He is best known for his non-fiction books about comics: Understanding Comics (1993), Reinventing Comics (2000) and Making Comics (2006), all of which also use the medium of comics. He established himself as a comics creator in the 1980s as an independent superhero cartoonist and advocate for creator’s rights. He rose to prominence in the industry beginning in the 1990s for his non-fiction works about the medium and has advocated the use of new technology in the creation and distribution of comics.
Genre: Non-Fiction > General
Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels:
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. 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. 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.
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art:
Published in 1993, Understanding Comics explores formal aspects of comics, the historical development of the medium, its fundamental vocabulary and various ways in which these elements have been used. It expounds theoretical ideas about comics as an art form and medium of communication and is itself written in comic book form. It received praise from notable comic and graphic novel authors such as Art Spiegelman, Will Eisner, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Garry Trudeau, who reviewed the book for the New York Times. Although the book has prompted debate over many of McCloud’s conclusions, its discussions of iconic art and the concept of closure between panels have become common reference points in discussions of the medium.
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