It explains how comics are written and how they function, but it also discusses how we perceive visual language in general. It also has an art history component. It's a comic book about comics so it's super meta and clever.
If you want to impress your comics-loving husband/brother/son/boyfriend you might consider getting this book for them for Christmas.
I'm glad you liked it. It makes me feel a lot more academic when reading comics now. I now realize that some of my English teachers used pages from it to explain storytelling. I like the bit about dying off panel(screen) and being doomed to a thousand deaths.
ReplyDeleteYeah, it's really good. Thanks for giving it to me.
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