292- Speech Bubbles: Understanding Comics with Scott McCloud

99% Invisible

• Episode: 292- Speech Bubbles: Understanding Comics with Scott McCloud
• Website: 99% Invisible
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• Duration: 00:31:36
• Published: 2018-01-24 00:47

Cartoonist and theorist Scott McCloud has been making and thinking about comics for decades. He is the author of Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. This classic volume explores formal aspects of comics, the historical development of the medium, its fundamental vocabulary, and various ways in which these elements have been used.

Scott McCloud breaks down some of the universals in comics and guides us through some of the comic books that pushed the art form forward. Then we use that lens to look at graphic communication in the world at large.

Speech Bubbles: Understanding Comics with Scott McCloud