A review by alanffm
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud

3.0

Understanding Comics does exactly what it's title suggests it does. I don't think it does it well, however. Scott Mcloud is pretty famous for his analysis of storytelling through pictures (comics!) and tries very hard to convey his knowledge in this book. Unfortunately it was kind of a boring read and, after taking a comic book class about narrative structure in comics, incredibly uninformative. Still, I think this is a great introductory book for anyone looking to learn about how comics work. The fact that it's all drawn out as a comic book is also very cool.