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Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics is a non-fiction comic about comics. There's no narrative like the ones you mentioned, but it's a worthwhile history and overview of the comics medium.
A nearby library got in a copy of The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation which is a meant to be an ... ... *
13) Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller *
14) The Mysterious Benedict Society by Trenton Lee Stewart
15) Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud *
16) Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee *
17) Funnyhouse of a Negro by Adrienne Kennedy *
18) Glengarry Glen Ross ... ... (not as cheesy as it sounds)
These both have highly expressive art and heart-touching-wrenching-exploding stories.
* Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud - a discussion of what comics is, whether it is art, and it's potential (separate but linked are Reinventing Comics and Making C ... ... other devices: The Difference Engine
726 - Buildings for religious purposes: Cathedral
741 - Drawing and drawings: Understanding Comics
791 - Public performances: If Chins Could Kill I bought Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud today, Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart and also House of Sugar, a graphic novel/comic strip by Rebecca Kraatz. I also got the Feedback comic from the "Who Wants to be a Superhero?" show. ... plan to keep reading if I can find discount copies of later volumes...
and these comics, which aren't manga:
Bone
Understanding Comics ... by them.
I spent the a lot of my paper just talking about comics basics, some stuff I found in Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics and I related it back to Persepolis. Towards the end of the paper I got into some of the possibilities of why this stereotype of female ... ... about comics throughout college. Last year I had the opportunity to attend lectures by Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics. I asked him where he'd like to see comics heading in the future. He said he wanted to see them anywhere and everywhere.
I think comics have been a ... ... a book now.
Meanwhile I've been dipping into Bertrand Russell's Why I Am Not a Christian and moving slowly through Understanding Comics, lent to me by a friend. I finished Understanding Comics last night, and then spent this morning reading The Fountain by Darren Aronofsky. Now I'm once again stuck with Gene Wolfe's The Knight. I don't know what it is with this book and me - on the one hand I love it, but on the other hand I find it really ... I'm going to spend this weekend reading Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics. I've been meaning to buy it for ages, and finally gave in. ... (harking back to Pogo by Walt Kelly), with a wide appeal to all ages.
Scott McCloud's books (particularly Understanding Comics) are a great start to understand the nature of the beast, and the way that comic book storytelling works.
* edited to add this, one of Scott McCloud' ... ... Scott McCloud. He really gets into the nitty-gritty of what makes a comic work. Of course, there's a lot of referbacks to Understanding Comics, which I'll recommend again. They're both fascinating reads. ... shortlist of "classics" tend to include stuff like:
Watchmen by Alan Moore
The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
Maus by Art Spiegelman
This, of course, if you are looking for graphic novels/comic collections. If you're looking for 32-page ... In Understanding Comics, Scott McCloud talks about "sequential art." A graphic novel under his definition would be any narrative of sufficient length and complexity told (partially or completely) through the medium of pictures ordered in sequence. Content doesn't matter; it could be ...
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