![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His black-and-white drawings are a delight, ranging from simplified cartoons to parodies of classic comics and fine art, all the while manifesting every theory and comics trend discussed. 'This is beginning to change,' he says, because comic artists who want 'to conduct bold new experiments in comics art still have to learn in most cases to be bold in black and white. McCloud attempts to place comics within the tradition of serious western art. McCloud ends this chapter noting the high costs of color printing. He dissects the vocabulary of the medium, cheerfully analyzing the psychological power of comics and their central role in our ultra-visual culture. But it's McCloud's accessible and quite amusing discussion of realism, abstraction and visual perception that forms the heart of this survey. ![]() Beginning in the 11th century with the Bayeux tapestry, he examines pre-Columbian picture languages and the printing press, presenting a quick survey of the historical development of early sequential pictures into the specialized visual language of comics. McCloud (who wrote a comic-book series called Zot! ) conducts a genial, well-researched and funny tour of virtually every historical and perceptual aspect of comics, which he calls ``sequential art,'' that is, art that consists of sequences of words and pictures. McCloud’s extensive knowledge of art and how. This is a rare and exciting work that ingeniously uses comics to examine the medium itself. Scott McCloud’s analyses of comics in the form of a comic/visual novel in his Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art is an excellent way of conveying and identifying the medium to new and old comic readers and anyone who is interested in the medium. ![]()
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