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- PhanLo8
- The level of detail in his work is mind bogglingkoma_
- Hard Boiled! Love itOBBTKN
- So many good details in those comics. Loved all the signagePhanLo
- I think it was posted on here before, but I got a copy of Lead Poisoning, the book of his pencils. Incredible stuff.Wolfboy
- ^Ah yeah Wolfboy, have it too, the drawings are so good.PhanLo
- PhanLo2
Al Columbia is so gooooooood
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- Wolfboy2
^^^ @Nairn
I don't know about better (or even more recent) than that book, it's excellent, but I think there a few others worth your time:
1/ How Comics Work
by Dave Gibbons and Tim Pilcher2/ The Will Eisner books –
Comics and Sequential Art
and
Graphic Storytelling and Visual NarrativeThere is a third book, but I believe it was cobbled together posthumously and it shows. It's not a patch on the first two.
3/ Something a bit different and a bit extreme (but it's a good read)
Cerebus Guide to Self Publishing
by Dave SimHe's crazy and his main theory seems to be you have to dedicate your life to the art (at the expense of EVERYTHING else) or you aren't really doing it right. But his description of the craft is great.
- Nairn1
Do any of you lot have any suggestions for something along the lines of 'Understanding Comics'? I had this years ago (well, two copies...) but they got borrowed/stolen. I'm thinking to buy a copy for my partner, but I'm wondering if anything betterer has come out in the intervening decades?
thanks in advance
- Bluejam1
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