Making Comics - Scott McCloud

Scott McCloud had his most recent brush with mainstream exposure in the form of the comic created to accompany the release of the new browser Google Chrome: (http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/index.html) ; and this, very descriptive, technical, expository, *educational* sort of comic writing is what the artist/writer has come to excel at over the past 15 years, in his comics theory books "Understanding Comics" and "Reinventing Comics", and his subsequent lectures. In 1990 he also invented the concept of the "24 hour comic"- a comic book completed in just one day as a creative exercise, which has since turned into a worldwide ...  Read the complete review