292- Speech Bubbles: Understanding Comics with Scott McCloud

99% Invisible

SiriusXM Podcasts and Roman Mars

Design, Arts

4.8 • 27.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Cartoonist and theorist Scott McCloud has been making and thinking about comics for decades. He is the author of Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. This classic volume explores formal aspects of comics, the historical development of the medium, its fundamental vocabulary, and various ways in which these elements have been used.

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0:00.0	This is 99% invisible.
0:01.9	I'm Roman Mars.
0:04.3	And this is Scott McLeod.
0:06.0	My name is Scott McLeod.
0:07.3	I'm a cartoonist and author,
0:09.0	and I've been making comics for a few decades now.
0:11.6	Probably best known for non-fiction comics,
0:13.6	especially book called Understanding Comics,
0:16.1	where I explain how comics work in comics form.
0:19.2	But I've also done fiction work,
0:21.2	and I have a lot of different interests,
0:23.2	and I'm very easily distracted.
0:25.5	Scott's book, Understanding Comics,
0:27.4	which is 25 years old this year,
0:29.3	is a seminal deconstruction of comics
0:31.3	as an art form and mode of communication.
0:33.9	A little cartoon Scott jumps between panels
0:36.2	of the 215-page book,
0:37.8	explaining how pictures and words in combination
0:40.9	create a new language for telling stories
0:43.2	and describing the world.
0:44.6	The book was the culmination of a bunch of ideas
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