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Summary: The basic to the advanced can learn from Mr. Eisner
Review: This book is one of the finest productions when it comes to the production of the comic book medium. There are several other books available that can tell someone how to draw, but none do what this one does, it focuses on teaching the reader how to tell a story, a virtually lost art in the modern comics arena. It breaks down into simple, yet not trivial components, the way a comic book artist should tell his story, as well as providing examples form Mr. Eisner's portfolio to help the reader understand what is being said. After all what is a book about telling a story with pictures, going to do without using pictures to tell it's story. The book also contains the basics of the drawing medium and some helpful tips for the rendering of comic art, but this is probably one of the best you'll ever see when it comes to learning what it is to tell the story.
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Summary: More for the professional than the lay person
Review: This is something of Will Eisner's lifework, the non-fiction complement to his wonderful work from the 1950s onward with _The Spirit_ through _A Contract with God_. Herein, Eisner describes the means by which his stories work, what makes them flow and live. Before Scott McCloud's _Understanding Comics_, Eisner was the standard bearer for the explanation of how comics achieved their effect. But this book never got the acclaim that McCloud's did, for it is not necessarily directed at the public, but at the would-be comics professional. In fact, most of the book is a reworking of Eisner's lecture notes from his teaching time at New York's School of Visual Art. The general public can still glean some great information about the medium from this book, but McCloud has supplanted Eisner as the popular textbook for courses on comics.
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Summary: Simply the Best Advice, from One of the Greatest
Review: Will Eisner either invented or refined most of the techniques of storytelling that "modern" comics depend on.Before this book, one way to learn How To Write And Draw Comics was to read, if you could find it, the entire run of Eisner's incredible "Spirit", which, fifty years after it ended, is still one of the most incredible examples of sheer bravado virtuosity in the medium. Since this book's publication, the "read the 'Spirit'" method -- while still, probably, the most pleasurable way to study -- is no longer the best. Now the best way to really *learn* how and why comics work is to get this book,and to allow one of the true masters of the craft to share with you his sixty-plus years' worth of experience and innovation. Learn how and why comics resemble film - and why they don't. Learn pacing, narrative and page beakdowns. It's almost like having Eisner himself standing there, pointing out what to do and what not to do. And anyone who thinks that Eisner must be irrelevant to comics because his most famous work was so long ago need look no further than the splash page of the fourth issue of DC's "Harley Quinn" (March 2001)... nor past the ending of the same comic, which subtly pays tribute to the "Spirit" story about an ordinary man named Gerhard Schnobble -- the one that Eisner has called his own favourite of the strip's entire run. You want to do comics and you don't have access to professional training? Buy this book. You want to do comics and you "do* have access to professional training? Buy this book, anyway..
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Summary: "Comics and Sequential Art" is a fantastic book.
Review: Will Eisner has written the definitive book on storytelling. This book is extremely useful to the aspiring comic artist as well as an aspiring film director. Mr. Eisner has wrapped a lifetime of discovery into this masterpiece.
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Summary: Finest book on storytelling for any sequential medium
Review: Will Eisner has written the definitive book on storytelling. This book is extremely useful to the aspiring comic artist as well as an aspiring film director. Mr. Eisner has wrapped a lifetime of discovery into this masterpiece.
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