Book of the Week: Understanding Comics

28 Nov 2014

After reading How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by the creator of Dilbert, I wanted to learn more about what goes into making comics. I picked up Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud to learn more. The book is a comic about understanding comics. It starts off with defining that comics are sequential art. Then it goes into the spectrum of comics and where they fit in the symbolism, realism, and iconic abstraction triangle. The middle of book goes over how space and time work. The end of the book goes over the six steps that artists go through in the creation process. When you read a comic, you feel certain things without knowing why. After reading this book, I have more of an appreciation of how the comic artist craft those experiences. Time to draw some comics on OpenSmut.