(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
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