" Magnificent! The best how-to manual ever published"
- Kevin Kelly Cool Tools Scott Mc Cloud tore down the wall between high & low culture in 1993 with Understanding Comics a massive comic book about comics linking the medium to such diverse fields as media theory movie criticism & web design In Reinventing Comics Mc Cloud took this to the next level charting twelve different revolutions in how comics are generated read & perceived today Now in Making Comics Mc Cloud focuses his analysis on the art form itself exploring the creation of comics from the broadest principles to the sharpest details (like how to accentuate a character&s facial muscles in order to form the emotion of disgust rather than the emotion of surprise) & he does all of it in his inimitable voice & through his cartoon st&-in narrator mixing dry humor & legitimate instruction Mc Cloud shows his reader how to master the human condition through word & image in a brilliantly minimalistic way Both comic book devotees & the uninitiated will marvel at this journey into a once-underappreciated art form