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       Reinventing Comics - Scott McCloud
       By: Chip Date: June 29, 2011, 8:46 pm
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       [CENTER] Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are
       Revolutionizing an Art Form (2000)
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       Written and Drawn by Scott McCloud
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       Where Understanding Comics has a timelessness that will never
       fade, Reinventing Comics clearly is dated given the fact that it
       came out in 2000. With his first book, the main objective was to
       teach you how and why comics works as a medium as well as the
       historical significance. But for Reinventing Comics, it's all
       about giving us the reader a theortical look at the future of
       comic books regarding everything from computers to the internet
       to distribution, etc...
       This book is Scott's manifesto of what he would like to see
       happen in the future and how to go about getting there. One
       can't help but see 11 years later how close or how far he miss
       the mark on that. I won't spoil it and will leave it up to you
       to read for yourself. I for one never read it when it first came
       out. So reading it 11 years after the fact, the entire time you
       are thinking to yourself how ambitious he is for what he wanted
       to see happen.
       Once again the artwork is done by Scott, which makes for a
       pretty fast and compelling read, even if you really don't want
       to hear about all the technical stuff about some of the minute
       things in the process of how a comic book travels from the
       artist to eventually the reader.
       I like the book, but trying to top, let alone equal that of
       Understanding Comics, it does come off as a bit underwhelming
       because the expectations were higher than normal.
       Rating: 3 1/2 Stars out of 5
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