{"id":4125,"date":"2004-07-04T13:16:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-04T13:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4125"},"modified":"2004-07-04T13:16:00","modified_gmt":"2004-07-04T13:16:00","slug":"understanding_c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/?p=4125","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Comics"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"006097625X.01.THUMBZZZ\"<\/a>A few weeks ago my parents had some folks over for dinner and I got to meet Walter Wick<\/a>, the person responsible for the I, Spy and Can You See What I See? books<\/a>. One topic that night was ‘What is art?’ and at one point we got to talking about comics and manga. He asked me if I’d read Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics<\/a>. I’d heard numerous people I know discuss it, but I’d never actually picked it up. So at his recommendation I picked it up a few days later.<\/p>\n

The first surprise I got was that the whole book is written in the style of a comic. For some reason, I hadn’t expected it (though it makes perfect sense). McCloud first asks “Just what is comics?” and the follows it up with a history of comics and look at just what it is that makes this art form special. The thing I really liked is that it felt like more than a book about comics. After reading this I felt like I had a deeper understanding of both art and storytelling. And I think the chapter discussing time and that space between the frames of a comic was the one that struck me the most. But the beauty of this book is how it slowly takes apart what makes a comic and then shows you how it all works together.<\/p>\n

So even if you’ve never picked up a comic book in your life. Or think there isn’t much too them. I recommend this book. Now I’ve just got to see if I can get my mom to read it. And I think I’ve also got to read Will Eisner’s Comics & Sequential Art<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A few weeks ago my parents had some folks over for dinner and I got to meet Walter Wick, the person responsible for the I, Spy and Can You See What I See? books. One topic that night was ‘What is art?’ and at one point we got to talking about comics and manga. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ezoons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}