Comics and Sequential Art: Principles and Practices from the Legendary Cartoonist (Will Eisner Instructional Books) Paperback Author: Visit Amazon's Will Eisner Page | Language: English | ISBN:
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Based on the popular course Eisner taught for several years at New York's School of Visual Arts, this lovingly written book on visual storytelling contains an accumulation of his ideas, theories and advice on the practice of graphic story-telling and the uses to which the comic book art form can be applied. Whether you're a film student, literature student, artist or simply a fan of good storytelling, you'll love this book filled with Eisner's cartoons.
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“Indispensable technique from the mind of the master cartoonist who developed them.” (Jeff Smith, creator of Bone)
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- Series: Will Eisner Instructional Books
- Paperback: 192 pages
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company (August 17, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0393331261
- ISBN-13: 978-0393331264
- Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.9 x 0.5 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
"Comics & Sequential Art" is based on a course Will Eisner taught at New York's School of Visual Art although originally this work was written as a series of essays that appeared randomly in "The Spirit" magazine. Eisner provides a guide book to the "principles & practice of the world's most popular art form, and while it is of interest to those of us who read comic books it is clearly intended to be of use to aspiring comic book artists (and writers, albeit to a lesser degree). One way of measuring the book's success is to note that I have the 24th printing of a work that was first published in 1985 (and expanded in 1990 to include print and computer), but then the fact that the book was written by Eisner and uses dozens of examples of his own art work to evidence his points, as well as drawings down specifically for the book, is enough to tell you this is something special.
There are eight lessons in Professor Eisner's syllabus: (1) Comics as a Form of Reading looks at the interplay of word and image in comic books that has created a cross-breeding of illustration and prose, including the idea of how text can be read as image, which shows the sense of detail Eisner brings to his subject. (2) Imagery begins with the idea of letters as images and develops a notion of how the "pictograph" functions in the modern comic strip as a calligraphic style variation. The key subject here is that of images without words. (3) "Timing" considers the phenomenon of duration and its experience as an integral dimension of sequential art, with Eisner drawing (literally) a distinction between "time" and "timing.
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