Making Comics

I've always had an interest in cartooning. As a kid, I wanted to be a cartoonist and I could have probably become one, except I lacked the patience to actually do a daily comic strip (and never mind the fact that newspaper comics are nearly impossible to break into and are dying anyway) but I still have a soft spot for cartooning.

So when I heard that Scott McCloud [1] had just released his new book Making Comics [2], I had to get it.

And I'm glad I did. He covers material that I've never seen covered in any of the “making comic” books I have. More than just drawing characters or how to use an ink pen, he goes into page layout, lettering, pacing, story telling, emotions (or rather, a theory of drawing emotions in chracters) and a dozen other topics I've never seen covered before.

It's also a logical extention of his other two books, Understanding Comics [3] and Reinventing Comics [4] (which is the weakest of his three books in my opinion).

=> [1] http://www.scottmccloud.com/ | [2] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060780940/002-0938775-4258467?ie=UTF8&tag=conmanlaborat-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0060780940 | [3] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006097625X/002-0938775-4258467?ie=UTF8&tag=conmanlaborat-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=006097625X | [4] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060953500/002-0938775-4258467?ie=UTF8&tag=conmanlaborat-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0060953500

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