Reinventing Comics
by Scott McCloud · first published 2000
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Explores how digital tools and the web are changing comics, with ideas on visual storytelling and interactive design. Offers inspiration for developers and designers working on screen-based media.
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…on graphically illustrated books because that's not an accepted part of our culture here, rather than to try to slam the French for something cool that works well for them. See also: Scott's McCloud's Reinventing Comics [0] and BDfugue [1], a terrific online store for bandes dessinées. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinventing_Comics [1] https://www.bdfugue.com/
on “France Gave Teenagers $350 for Culture. They’re Buying Comic Books” ↗I'm the developer and (first-time) comics artist. Instead of the traditional blog, we distilled our notes into this webcomic. I'm a big fan of Scott McCloud's books (Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, Making Comics). I hadn't drawn any long-form comics before, and drawing people is still hard/scary. I had a few books lined up on the process of making comics but no time to read them, so I just bit…
on “Show HN: our webcomic about how we made our first iPhone game” ↗kinda similar in vein https://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/big_00.html this one is by Scott McCloud. I own Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics both of which are inspirational reads
on “Captain Zilog” ↗…regularity. Upon discovery of the errant code, the programmer was immediately fired, but the transgression spoke volumes about the frenetic and fragmented state of affairs at Maxis. ---- Scott McCloud Reinventing Comics: https://www.nextchapterbooksellers.com/book/9780060953508 “Anyone involved in interactive entertainment (games, web, etc.) should read this book. Scott McCloud has once again transcended the world…
on “Game developers share what they're most proud of making” ↗Understanding Comics By Scott McCloud. It won't teach developers anything about Photoshop or CSS, but it's an incredible book in terms of Visual Iconography and its effects on readers/users. His follow up 'Reinventing Comics' is also a must read. To quote Will Wright (The Sims, Spore) "Anyone involved in interactive entertainment (games, web, etc.) should read this book. Scott McCloud has once again transcended the world…
on “Ask HN: Designers, what is the single book developers should read on design?” ↗In "Reinventing Comics," Scott McCloud talks about how digitized information leads to result that all our content becomes "unpackaged" from their original mediums - a comic, a piece of writing, a pop song, and a movie don't…
on “Post-Medium Publishing” ↗"... What does this comic gain from the strange layout of otherwise regular squares? ..." Scott McCloud wrote a whole book explaining why, "Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form" ~ http://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Comics-Imagination-Technol... a quick summary: he's trying to redefine & elevate comics from being…
on “My Obsession with Chess” ↗That must be a reply to Scott McCloud's "Reinventing Comics". It came out July 25, 2000 and this strip is from June 22, 2001 (under a year later). One part of the book was about micropayments. Edit: oh yeah, obviously it is. The character talking is Scott McCloud's…
on “Ask HN: Is it time to resurrect a Usenet clone?” ↗Yep, "Reinventing Comics". Here's his personal page on the books: http://scottmccloud.com/store/store.html
on “Why the Google Chrome Comic Rocked - Scott McCloud’s “Invisible Art”” ↗…breaking that long-standing constraint. The repetition of regular squares sets up rhythms, that he then violates for purposes of mood, emphasis, timing, etc. *seriously, his second comic about comics, "Reinventing Comics", basically boils down to "the Internet will transform the finances behind comics via micropayments" (right on the transformation, wrong on the micropayments) and "the Internet will transform the layout…
on “My Obsession with Chess” ↗