The sequential art revealed

Since its inception in 1993, this book remains THE reference for comics. His great strength? Being or even a cartoon. First discovered by reading this book: a comic is much more than pictures and text. The specificity of the ninth art is the strong interaction between aeuvre and the perceiver. The reader is involved in aeuvre because he imagines what happens between boxes. Several elements, text or graphics, can influence the impact that the work will have on the reader. For example, a very elaborate graphics accentuate the realism of a story but creates a distance between the reader and the characters of the story. Instead, a simple graphics leads the reader to identify with the characters. These concepts seem complex? Second discovery through playful drawings of Scott McCloud, these principles, and many others, become a dazzling clarity.

Fun, very well built and of great density, this book reads rather in installments It complements very well with almost as great "Making the comic strip" the same author. After closing the book you never read a comic as before.