![]() ![]() "It's hard to imagine more pressure," says McCloud. The Sculptor, published by First Second Books, is an ambitious (nearly 500 pages) graphic novel about a struggling artist who makes a Faustian bargain to achieve his creative dreams.Īs McCloud is acutely aware, the stature and authority his books have achieved means that expectations are high. Although McCloud published a well-received superhero comic called Zot! during the late 1980s and early '90s, he hasn't released a graphic novel in nearly 25 years-until today. Between 19, the comics theorist published Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, and Making Comics, an examination of sequential art that became a touchstone for countless artists, writers, teachers, and readers.īut after you've written the book on making comics, what kind of comics do you make? For a long time, it's been hard to say. ![]() If you walk into a classroom, library, or bookstore and say you want to know more about comics, chances are that someone will hand you a book by Scott McCloud. ![]()
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