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Experiencing Comics: An Introduction to Reading, Discussing, and Creating Comics by Rachelle Cruz
jameseckman's review
3.0
This textbook does have the most diverse collection of contributors I have ever seen. There are articles about the LBGTQ community, gender, culture and the like. If you want to find out about non-mainstream comics, this would make a good start, there's an extensive set of links and a good sized bibliography.
As a textbook, this is more about the culture surrounding comics and not the actual artistic aspects. There are very few illustrations and the text is mostly large blocks of fine print, you would need a book like Scott McCloud's [b:Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art|102920|Understanding Comics The Invisible Art|Scott McCloud|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1328408101s/102920.jpg|2415847] to study the actual language of comics. As many textbooks have, this has a list of questions at the end of every chapter. Some are pretty scary like What is capitalism and liberalism. At least they didn't ask for a definition of existentialism!
An interesting approach to the subject of comics, the only book I've seen on the subject with very few pictures.
As a textbook, this is more about the culture surrounding comics and not the actual artistic aspects. There are very few illustrations and the text is mostly large blocks of fine print, you would need a book like Scott McCloud's [b:Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art|102920|Understanding Comics The Invisible Art|Scott McCloud|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1328408101s/102920.jpg|2415847] to study the actual language of comics. As many textbooks have, this has a list of questions at the end of every chapter. Some are pretty scary like What is capitalism and liberalism. At least they didn't ask for a definition of existentialism!
An interesting approach to the subject of comics, the only book I've seen on the subject with very few pictures.
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