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A review by rebeccacider
Reinventing Comics: The Evolution of an Art Form by Scott McCloud
4.0
Reinventing Comics is a fascinating look at the evolution of comics and digital media in the Internet age. McCloud was incredibly prescient, and despite its age this book still has important things to say about what comics and technology can do for storytellers.
I only identified one topics that McCloud, and many others, were dead wrong about: the rise of novel forms of data visualization. I mean, don't get me wrong, data visualization is huge, but mostly using visual metaphors similar to those that existed before the computer age. Very few people are doing, say, this any more: http://visuwords.com/grey
As a librarian, I'm fascinated by these applications of new media, but can't decide how much promise spatial visualization has for conveying ideas. Partner and I were discussing the subject and decided that learning new spatial metaphors is just plain hard. For instance, it requires effort to learn how to read maps, just like comics (or computer screens).
I only identified one topics that McCloud, and many others, were dead wrong about: the rise of novel forms of data visualization. I mean, don't get me wrong, data visualization is huge, but mostly using visual metaphors similar to those that existed before the computer age. Very few people are doing, say, this any more: http://visuwords.com/grey
As a librarian, I'm fascinated by these applications of new media, but can't decide how much promise spatial visualization has for conveying ideas. Partner and I were discussing the subject and decided that learning new spatial metaphors is just plain hard. For instance, it requires effort to learn how to read maps, just like comics (or computer screens).