You'll follow the development of sequential art storytelling - from caveman wall paintings to modern manga and cinematic techniques. You'll learn how comic book superheroes are created and the deeper meanings they represent. This book is an insider's guide to how the comic book industry works. Scott McCloud, Reinventing Comics : How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form, Harper Paperbacks, 2000. Including interviews with librarians, comic creators, and girls who read comics and manga, Girls and Their Comics is an excellent examination of the growing interest in comic books among young females. This volume also includes a chapter on manga (Japanese comics), which explores the genesis of girls’ comics in Japan and their popularity with girls in the United States. While examining the concept of visual literacy, Jacqueline Danziger-Russell asserts that comics are an excellent space in which the marginalized voices of girls may be expressed. This book discusses the overall history of the comic book, paying special attention to girls’ comics, showing how such works relate to a female point of view. Part One of this fascinating and in-depth book includes: The life of comics as an art form and as literture The battle for creators' rights Reinventing the business of comics The volatile and shifting public percptions of comics Sexual and ethnic representation on comics Then in Part Two, McCloud paints a brethtaling picture of comics' digital revolutions, including: The intricacies of digital production The exploding world of online delivery The ultimate challenges of the infinite digital canvasįinding a Female Voice in Comic Book Narrative Jacqueline Danziger-Russell. Now, McCloud takes comics to te next leavle, charting twelve different revolutions in how comics are created, read, and preceived today, and how they're poised to conquer the new millennium. In 1993, Scott McCloud tore down the wall between high and low culture with the acclaimed international hit Understanding Comics, a massive comic book that explored the inner workings of the worlds most misunderstood art form.