Scott McCloud es un dibujante y teórico estadounidense que explora el cómic como un medio literario y artístico distintivo. Su obra profundiza en los fundamentos teóricos, el lenguaje visual y el potencial narrativo inherente a la forma del cómic. McCloud se centra en cómo las imágenes y las palabras colaboran para crear significado y cómo este medio puede utilizarse para exploraciones profundas de diversos temas. Sus ideas sobre la naturaleza del cómic han sido fundamentales para dar forma a su comprensión académica y artística.
Presents instructions for aspiring cartoonists on the art form's key techniques, sharing concise and accessible guidelines on such principles as capturing the human condition through words and images in a minimalist style.
This comic book provides a detailed look at the history, meaning, and art of comics and cartooning
A compilation of adventures features Superman's battles with Metallo, Brainiac, Livewire, and Lex Luthor.
In 1993, Scott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture with the acclaimed international hit Understanding Comics, a massive comic book that explored the inner workings of the worlds most misunderstood art form. Now, McCloud takes comics to te next leavle, charting twelve different revolutions in how comics are created, read, and preceived today, and how they're poised to conquer the new millennium. Part One of this fascinating and in-depth book includes: The life of comics as an art form and as literture The battle for creators' rights Reinventing the business of comics The volatile and shifting public percptions of comics Sexual and ethnic representation on comics Then in Part Two, McCloud paints a brethtaling picture of comics' digital revolutions, including: The intricacies of digital production The exploding world of online delivery The ultimate challenges of the infinite digital canvas
Zachary T Paleozogt, known as Zot is a teenage hero from an alternate Earth. Jaunting back and forth between the worlds seems exciting for Zot at first, but there are subtle differences in the essential nature of the two planets that take some getting used to. Nevertheless, Zot eagerly takes on Earth's challenges with the most amusing outcomes.
Thanks to a deal with death, a young sculptor gets his childhood wish - to sculpt anything he can imagine with his bare hands. With only 200 days to live, deciding what to create is harder than he thought.
Metallo strikes at the Last Son of Krypton through a woman who claims to be Superman's girlfriend!
The Kryptonian villain Jax-Ur has used Professor Hamilton's size-changing device to become a giant!
As the light from the explosion that destroyed Krypton finally reaches Earth, the robot Brainiac sets out to destroy Superman and so erase all knowledge of Krypton--and the memory of his role in its destruction.
As the light from the explosion that destroyed Krypton reaches Earth, the humanoid supercomputer Brainiac sets out make sure he's the only possessor of Kryptonian knowledge by destroying Superman!