To put it simply, Understanding Comics is about what comics are, Reinventing Comics is about what comics can become, and Making Comics is about the creative process behind them. Unlike the rest of the guides on this list, these three guides all comics themselves, in which an avatar of Scott McCloud takes readers on a journey through every corner of sequential art. Scott McCloud’s trilogyĪn article like this can’t be written without acknowledging three of Scott McCloud’s most defining works. Scott McCloud’s work refines a lot of the information conveyed in this guide, but the book still includes plenty of interesting nuggets of wisdom, and it’s great to learn directly from one of the comic masters. He goes on to explain the creative process and the forms sequential art can take His guide defines comics as a form of reading and describes, among other things, how the medium juxtaposes words and images and how the panel structure plays with time. In each chapter, Eisner covers a different topic and includes some of his own comics to provide examples. Will Eisner created one of the earliest books about making comics when Poorhouse Press published Comics and Sequential Art in 1985.
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