About the book
Written entirely in comic book form, Scott McCloud's 1993 study examines what comics are, where they came from and how they work. His central claim is that the medium is defined by sequences of images, and he coins the term closure for the reader's work of filling the gaps between panels. McCloud names the Swiss caricaturist Rodolphe Töpffer a father of the modern comic, compares iconic and realistic drawing, and maps styles on a tool he calls the Big Triangle. Art Spiegelman, Will Eisner, Neil Gaiman and Alan Moore praised it, and the title nods to Marshall McLuhan's Understanding Media. McCloud later followed it with Reinventing Comics and Making Comics.
Writer and artist Austin Kleon pointed visual thinkers who want to write better toward it, since cartoonists have to work across words and pictures at once.
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Austin Kleon (Writer, Artist)
Unsolicited, but here’s my advice for visual thinkers (and others) who want to be better writers:
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Cartoonists, because their work demands work from two disciplines (writing/art, poetry/design, words/pictures), are highly instructive when it comes to visual people learning to write, writers learning to make art, etc. (Check out Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics for more.)
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