Scott McCloud, 1993
Adult Book
My first adult book of the summer and it's a comic book. Actually it's a comic book about comics, which sounds a lot of fun. This book is a lot of fun, but there's also a tonne of theory in it which makes your head spin a little.
The comic takes you through the history of sequential art, before moving on to art theory (probably not interestin for most people) and then on to the much more interesting theory on comic gutters, frames, line, colour etc. After teaching comics at the end of this year, there was a lot more in here that I would have liked to have shared with the students and definitely will be sharing in the new year. I particularly loved the differences between European and Japanese comics.
This is quite a technical book and some of the art/language is a little older, so probably best from 12-14 years older. But if you have an avid comic reader around, or a comic drawer/writer - this would be a great book for them. And if you're planning on teaching comics, it really is an essential read.
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