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                                 Making Comics
                                        
I've always had an interest in cartooning. As a kid, I wanted to be a
cartoonist and I could have probably become one, except I lacked the patience
to actually do a daily comic strip (and never mind the fact that newspaper
comics are nearly impossible to break into and are dying anyway) but I still
have a soft spot for cartooning. 

So when I heard that Scott McCloud [1] had just released his new book _Making
Comics_ [2], I had to get it. 

And I'm glad I did. He covers material that I've never seen covered in any of
the “making comic” books I have. More than just drawing characters or how to
use an ink pen, he goes into page layout, lettering, pacing, story telling,
emotions (or rather, a theory of drawing emotions in chracters) and a dozen
other topics I've never seen covered before. 

It's also a logical extention of his other two books, _Understanding Comics_
[3] and _Reinventing Comics_ [4] (which is the weakest of his three books in
my opinion). 

[1] http://www.scottmccloud.com/
[2] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060780940/002-0938775-4258467?ie=UTF8&tag=conmanlaborat-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0060780940
[3] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/006097625X/002-0938775-4258467?ie=UTF8&tag=conmanlaborat-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=006097625X
[4] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060953500/002-0938775-4258467?ie=UTF8&tag=conmanlaborat-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=1789&creativeASIN=0060953500

Email Sean Conner at sean@conman.org

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