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3 unusual facts about Understanding Comics


David Galenson

Comics theorist Scott McCloud seems to have anticipated some aspects of Galenson's theory in his 1993 book Understanding Comics.

In the Night Kitchen

The book may be defined as a comic story, at least if one uses the definition of comics proposed in Scott McCloud's acclaimed Understanding Comics — the storytelling is mainly pictorial (albeit clarified by captions) and the images mainly sequential, and speech balloons are used throughout the entire book.

Understanding Comics

Understanding Comics received praise from notable comic and graphic novel authors such as Art Spiegelman, Will Eisner, Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Garry Trudeau (who reviewed the book for the New York Times), and was called "one of the most insightful books about designing graphic user interfaces ever written" by Apple Macintosh co-creator Andy Hertzfeld.


Daniel Merlin Goodbrey

Understanding Comics creator Scott McCloud has used the Tarquin engine for the creation of some of his comics.

Visual literacy

The graphic novel Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud discusses the history of narrative in visual media.


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