Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels

Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics was published in 1993, just as "Comics Aren't Just for Kids Anymore!" articles were starting to appear and graphic novels were making their way into the mainstream, and it quickly gave the newly respectable medium the theoretical and practical manifesto it needed. With his clear-eyed and approachable analysis--done using the same comics tools he was describing--McCloud quickly gave "sequential art" a language to understand itself. McCloud made the simplest of drawing decisions seem deep with artistic potential.

Thirteen years later, following the Internet evangelizing of Reinventing Comics, McCloud has returned with Making Comics.

• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
• Reinventing Comics: The Evolution of an Art Form
• Comics and Sequential Art: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist (Will Eisner Instructional Books)
• The Art of Comic Book Writing: The Definitive Guide to Outlining, Scripting, and Pitching Your Sequential Art Stories
• Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative (Will Eisner Instructional Books)
• Drawing Words and Writing Pictures: Making Comics: Manga, Graphic Novels, and Beyond
• Alan Moore's Writing For Comics Volume 1
• Words for Pictures: The Art and Business of Writing Comics and Graphic Novels
• Framed Ink: Drawing and Composition for Visual Storytellers
• Expressive Anatomy for Comics and Narrative: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist (Will Eisner Library (Hardcover))