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Comics and Sequential Art

Jan 21, 2007 13:06

So I just completed Will Eisner's Comics and Sequential Art. My initial impressions after completing the book are the same as when I started it. Wow. And anyone who believes that Scott McCloud's books make Eisner's obsolete has clearly not read it. As a collection these are really especially good ( Read more... )

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pure_doxyk January 21 2007, 22:11:40 UTC

Thanks for the review! My husband writes a comic (in case you didn't know), and he says he's been meaning to check out Eisner's books for some time now, but you gave him the push. ;)

dancemonkey January 22 2007, 02:08:28 UTC

I saw you posting about Leave it to Jesus a while back, but I had no idea it was your hubby that wrote it. Kick ass! It is now a part of my rss reading.

And I'm very glad to hear that anything I wrote actually evoked a reaction. I'm especially pleased that it encouraged him to read it. I'll be very interested in knowing his opinion on it once he finished it. I'd also be interested in knowing what he thought of Scott McCloud's Making Comics. I assume he's read it.

Graphic Storytelling was already on my list and I plan on moving it to the top now that I finished with Sequential Art.

I also assume that he's on LJ. What's his username?

pure_doxyk January 22 2007, 02:18:14 UTC

RSS is among the highest readership compliments there are -- thanks!

riotmod is my very awesome boy, and he has this to say about Making Comics: It's okay, but S.M.'s conclusions are too broad (you have to remember LITJ is on the experimental side!), and he's a bit full of himself. Reinventing Comics is better.

Thanks!

dancemonkey January 22 2007, 16:30:59 UTC

I didn't notice that McCloud actually made any conclusions in Making. And I can completely understand why riotmod would think that he's full of himself, but most evangelists are.

I also wouldn't say that LITJ is on the experimental side. I'd just say that LITJ is experimental. Haha! Which is kick ass, by the way. Me loves the experimental. And due to LITJ being experimental it would make perfect sense that riotmod would like Reinventing. From what I've heard, mind you. I haven't read it yet. Another on my list of to-read.

But with that in mind, riotmod may not like Comics & Sequential Art as much as I did because it doesn't address experimental much at all. This was originally written in 1984 with an extra chapter added in 1990 to deal with the digital revolution. Point of note, all the images in the final chapter (which is pretty weak, actually) show a computer that has a 3.5" floppy coming out of it. Sweet!

pure_doxyk January 22 2007, 16:47:58 UTC

Ah, vintageness. 'Twill make riotmod feel old, but he'll secretly like it anyway. ;)

I'm addicted to the LITJ t-shirts. I keep making him make more so that I can buy them! My current favorite is the "I'm breaking up with you" one, but this changes at least weekly.

His mom once ran into a guy wearing an LITJ t-shirt at the local RenFest. Even better, it turns out the guy was/is a Presbyterian minister and a huge fan -- he made my mom-in-law sign his t-shirt!

I suppose neither of us can ever run for political office thanks to that strip...but ah, it's worth it.

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