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Scott McCloud

    June 10, 1960

    Scott McCloud is an American cartoonist and theorist, exploring comics as a distinct literary and artistic medium. His work delves into the theoretical underpinnings, visual language, and narrative potential inherent in the comic form. McCloud focuses on how images and words collaborate to create meaning and how this medium can be utilized for profound explorations of various subjects. His insights into the nature of comics have been instrumental in shaping its academic and artistic understanding.

    Scott McCloud
    The sculptor
    Zot!
    Reinventing Comics
    Superman. Adventures of the Man of Steel
    Understanding Comics. The Invisible Art.
    Making comics : storytelling secrets of comics, manga and graphic novels
    • Reinventing Comics

      • 256 pages
      • 9 hours of reading

      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

      Reinventing Comics
    • 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.

      Zot!
    • 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.

      The sculptor
    • A Big Problem!

      • 26 pages
      • 1 hour of reading

      The Kryptonian villain Jax-Ur has used Professor Hamilton's size-changing device to become a giant!

      A Big Problem!
    • 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.

      Superman Adventures: Distant Thunder
    • 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!

      Distant Thunder