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Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

(Scott McCloud)
Kitchen Sink Press edition (1993) out of print HarperCollins ? (1994) ISBN 0-06-097625-X (paperback)

Presented in comics form, this is Scott McCloud's original foray
in understanding comics as art, a medium of expression rather than a limited method and genre. As well as deconstructing comics,
showing their mechanisms and history, McCloud also provides examples from a wide selection of well-known and lesser-known
comics.

The book has no index, but this oversight is corrected at
http://www.scottmccloud.com/

Before the sequel ReinventingComics, McCloud also wrote

(er, Superman book)
(er, Abe Lincoln book)

d@vid Apr 22 03:

although I am a McCloud fanboy I have only read Understanding
and Reinventing; I've seen the Supes and Abe Lincoln books before, but they didn't wow me