![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() What can I say? I had some particular interests at the time. Eager for more of the same, Reinventing Comics immediately disappointed by refusing to repeat the formula of the first book - and, maybe even less forgivably, by dropping Bob Lappan, who lettered the first book, for a digital font that seemed lifeless by comparison. I should know I was part of that audience: a comic fan who had been wowed by McCloud’s Understanding Comics when it had appeared seven years earlier, and the way in which it broke down the mechanics of comics storytelling and the comic book industry as-was. Scott McCloud’s Reinventing Comics was originally released 21 years ago, at a time when its target audience was, to be blunt, not really prepared for what McCloud had to say. ![]()
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