![]() ![]() ![]() Implication: Someone got killed, and the reader has mentally created the way in which it happened.) (exhibit A: Panel 1- Angry man raises axe while someone in front of him shouts NO! Panel 2- Loud, wet scream from a building in a very long shot. That just as a reader's mind must fill in details when reading a book, so too must they fill in the blank space between panels. It was one of the first books to define the notion of "closure" or, rather, what happens between panels. It has since become a common academic resource, being included in compilations like the Norton Reader despite its non-traditional style. More than that, Understanding Comics is a nine-part comic book about comics.Įssentially an essay about comics as a medium and the industry itself, the books are among the first that seriously analyzed comics in their own right. ![]() Understanding Comics, and its follow-ups Reinventing Comics and Making Comics, are a critically acclaimed non-fiction comic book series by Scott McCloud. ![]()
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