Understand Comics and You’ll be a Better Storyteller

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art, by New York Times bestselling author Scott McCloud.

Read this book and learn about the history of the comics — or juxtaposed sequential visual art, which goes all the way back to Egyptian hieroglyphics and continues in the comics and graphic novels of today. Scott is a true scholar of the art form, and as a TV and Film producer, director and editor, I learned so much about how to tell a story visually. You learn what images pull the human eye, and how the passage of time is portrayed in the comics, and then in any visual medium. You learn how a realistic image can work for your story, or hinder it, and how the illusion of speed can bring a stationary image to life. There is so much crossover between comics and the moving image. Get this book and read it. You’ll learn something, and love comics that much more!