Understanding Comics

<p><strong>Reading <em>Understanding Comics</em> blew my teenage mind and gave me a toolbox full of ideas that I still use today.</strong> --<strong>Raina Telgemeier</strong></p><p><strong>The bestselling international classic on storytelling and visual communication.</strong></p><p>Praised throughout the cartoon industry by such luminaries as Art Spiegelman Matt Groening and Will Eisner Scott McCloud's <em>Understanding Comics</em> is a seminal examination of comics art: its rich history surprising technical components and major cultural significance. Explore the secret world between the panels through the lines and within the hidden symbols of a powerful but misunderstood art form.</p>