http://www.mlarson.org/2006/11/04/making-comics-review-455/ this what i like Thu, 09 Feb 2012 03:55:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.mlarson.org/2006/11/04/making-comics-review-455/comment-page-1/#comment-2023 mlarson.org » Reinventing Comics (review: 3/5) Mon, 12 Feb 2007 17:37:25 +0000 http://www.mlarson.org/2006/11/04/making-comics-review-455/#comment-2023 [...] Reinventing Comics is the middle child in the McCloud comics trilogy. I found it to be the weakest and least interesting of the three. (see my reviews of Making Comics and Understanding Comics) Not bad, but nothing special. McCloud himself sums up nicely: I believe that Reinventing Comics has genuine flaws. The two halves don’t always work well together, the storytelling is frequently stiffer and less convincing, and my enthusiastic advocacy of online comics is rarely tempered by some of the bleaker, more pessimistic scenarios offered by other writers in recent years. It was a harder book to write than Understanding Comics and, from all reports, a harder book to read. [...] [...] Reinventing Comics is the middle child in the McCloud comics trilogy. I found it to be the weakest and least interesting of the three. (see my reviews of Making Comics and Understanding Comics) Not bad, but nothing special. McCloud himself sums up nicely: I believe that Reinventing Comics has genuine flaws. The two halves don’t always work well together, the storytelling is frequently stiffer and less convincing, and my enthusiastic advocacy of online comics is rarely tempered by some of the bleaker, more pessimistic scenarios offered by other writers in recent years. It was a harder book to write than Understanding Comics and, from all reports, a harder book to read. [...]

]]> http://www.mlarson.org/2006/11/04/making-comics-review-455/comment-page-1/#comment-911 mlarson.org » Fri, 22 Dec 2006 22:33:17 +0000 http://www.mlarson.org/2006/11/04/making-comics-review-455/#comment-911 [...] I agree that Absolute DC: New Frontier was really good. I loved Scott McCloud’s Making Comics (my review). I sort of panned The 9/11 Report: A Graphical Adaptation (my review), but it made the honorable mentions anyway. I just started Kevin Huizenga’s Curses, and Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is definitely on the (ever-lengthening) to-read list. [...] [...] I agree that Absolute DC: New Frontier was really good. I loved Scott McCloud’s Making Comics (my review). I sort of panned The 9/11 Report: A Graphical Adaptation (my review), but it made the honorable mentions anyway. I just started Kevin Huizenga’s Curses, and Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic is definitely on the (ever-lengthening) to-read list. [...]

]]> http://www.mlarson.org/2006/11/04/making-comics-review-455/comment-page-1/#comment-173 mlarson.org » Thu, 09 Nov 2006 06:46:08 +0000 http://www.mlarson.org/2006/11/04/making-comics-review-455/#comment-173 [...] Publisher’s Weekly suggests the best books of 2006. I read Making Comics, The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation, Small Is the New Big, and flipped through The Bon App?Štit Cookbook. I really need some more fiction in my life. I can really enjoy fiction–I wonder why it doesn’t catch my eye as easily? [via sgb] [...]

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