"He's produced
something
new-but-not-new, by using the medium of a comic to vitalize an academic
essay discussing the forms and functions of both comics and essays in
which he finds both to be oddly constrained because
of their open, infinite definitions. His contention is that "certain
general social assumptions have cropped up: the essay is boring, and
the comic is childish" partly because neither medium has a better,
formal definition."
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just read it - wonderful thank you James for the pointer - love comics, always have - enjoy essays, wish i could write them. academaesthetics is pure pleasure. :) minh
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A 215-page comic book about comics
that explains the inner workings of the medium and examines many aspects of visual communication along the way. Understanding Comics was a Harvey and Eisner winner, was praised in The New York Times, Publishers Weekly
and Wired, and is in over 13 languages. A favorite of interface, game and Web designers despite the fact that it doesn't mention computers once!