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McCloud,
Scott. Understanding Comics:
The Invisible Art.
Lett. Bob Lappan.
Northampton, MA: Tundra, 1993. ISBN 1568620195.
See
Also: McCloud, Scott. L'art
invisible. Comprendre la bande dessinée. Traduit
de l'anglais par Dominique Petitfaux. Éd.
Vertige
Graphic, 1999[?].
Find in a
Library with WorldCat
- Author's
website
- Introduction . . .
[n.p.]
- Setting the Record
Straight . . . 2
- The Vocabulary of
Comics . . . 24 [see "The Big Triangle"]
- Blood in the Gutter .
. . 60
- Time Frames . . . 94
- Living in Line . . .
118
- Show and Tell . . . 138
- The Six Steps . . . 162
- A Word About Color . .
. 185
- Putting It All
Together . . . 193
- Selected Bibliography
and Copyright Information . . . [216].
Reviews
in Print and On-Line
- Boyd, Robert. "Understanding
Comics: A New Book by Scott
McCloud."
[Preview.] The Comics Journal
157 (March 1993): 43.
- Delany, Samuel R. "The
Politics of Paraliterary Criticism." In three
parts. The
New York Review of Science Fiction
98 (October 1996): 1, 8-13; 99 (November
1996): 1, 8-12; and 100 (December 1996): 1, 8-12.
- Heller, Steven.
[review.] Eye
14.4 (Autumn 1994): 82.
- Horrocks, Dylan. "Inventing Comics: Scot McCloud's Definition of Comics." Comics Journal 234 (June 2001). online via the author: <http://www.hicksville.co.nz/Inventing%20Comics.htm>
- Jennequin, Jean-Paul.
"Understanding Comics." Critix
5 (hiver 1997-1998):
41-48.
- Miller, Jeff,
ed. "Contesting Understanding
Comics."
[edited discussion transcripts from the Comics
Scholars' Discussion List.] <http://www.dreamscape.com/ jsmiller/mccloud.htm: off-line, but available via Wayback Machine>
- O'Brien,
Paul. Review of Understanding
Comics ["Ghost in the
Machine" column.] Crossover Universe, <http://pages.prodigy.com/crossover/comics.htm: off-line, but available via Wayback Machine>
- "Seeing the Invisible.
Responses to Scott McCloud's Understanding
Comics:
A Panel Discussion." Randy Duncan, Will Eisner, Mike Friedrich, James
P.
Pascoe, with audience participation from Carl Potts, Shel Dorf, Donna
Barr,
and Scott McCloud. The Comics
Journal 165 (January 1994):
41-45.
- Various. "Critical Focus: Understanding Comics." Comics
Journal 211 (April 1999):
57-103. Featuring:
- Beaty, Bart. "I've
had my say. Now, it's your
turn." [Introduction]. 57.
- Witek,
Joseph. "Ramses in the Ivory Tower." 58-61.
- Cwiklik,
Greg. "Understanding the Real Problem." 62-66.
- Beaty,
Bart. "The Search for Comics
Exceptionalism." 67-72.
- Spurgeon, Tom. "Six
Steps, Leading Nowhere." 73-76.
- Tong, Ng
Suat. "An Open Debate About Closure: A Speculative
Jab at Understanding
Comics, Chapter 3 (Blood in the
Gutter)." 77-79.
- Tsaousis,
Spiros. "What Comics Do." 80-81.
- Frome,
Johnathan. "Identity in
Comics." 82-86. [author's
name mistakenly listed as "Ethan."]
- Hatfield,
Charles. "Thoughts on Understanding
Comics." 87-91.
- Comics Section:
- Macan,
Darko. [Untitled]. 92.
- Sturm, James and
Art Baxter. "A Response to Chapter Nine:
Build a
Beach Head." 93-9.
- McCloud,
Scott. "First Impressions" [responses to above
articles]. 100-03.
- Windham, Ryder.
"Comictopia." The
Comics Journal 159 (May 1993):
108-09.
- Witek, Joseph.
[Review.] inks:
Cartoon and Comic Art Studies
1.1
(February 1994): 42-4
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