Understanding Comics
By
Scott McCloud
Scott McCloud
1993 • 215 pages

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Top 25 Books to Unleash Your Creative Potential

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Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain: The Definitive Edition
The Elements of Style
Save the Cat
Understanding Comics
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
Manage Your Day-To-Day

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Books everyone should read

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A Short History of Nearly Everything
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This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
The Bogleheads' Guide to Investing
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Recommendations

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NPR's Let's Get Graphic: 100 Favorite Comics And Graphic Novels

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Watchmen
Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
This One Summer
Sweet Tooth, Volume 1: Out of the Deep Woods
Through the Woods
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Ebook Library

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The Cavalier's Cup
The Reader Is Warned
The Problem of the Wire Cage
The House at Satan's Elbow
The Peacock Feather Murders
He Wouldn't Kill Patience
My Late Wives

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359 books

Nonfiction

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What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
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The Guinea Pig Diaries: My Life as an Experiment
The Year of Living Biblically
The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
The Grand Design
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On Ipad

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Tetris: The Games People Play
An Entity Observes All Things
Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea
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The Tragical Comedy Or Comical Tragedy Of Mr Punch: A Romance
Puke Force

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A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America Along the Appalachian Trail
Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Look Both Ways: Bisexual Politics
Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began
The Mother Tongue
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Understanding Comics

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Comics And Graphic Novels

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Walt and Skeezix, Vol. 1: 1921-1922
The Complete Maus
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Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons
Habibi
The Revenge of the Baby-Sat
It's a Magical World

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Non Fiction

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At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much
Understanding Comics
The Knitter's Book of Yarn
Free-Range Knitter
Knitting in Plain English

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The People of Paper
House of Leaves
Cloud Atlas
If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
The Complete Cosmicomics
Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic
Understanding Comics

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Creative Inspiration

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The Creative Act: A Way of Being
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph
Creative Confidence
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Understanding Comics
Data Sketches

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Wikipatterns
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
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Storm Front

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Sequential Art

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Killing Stalking: Deluxe Edition
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Visual

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The Sketchnote Handbook
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The Shape of Space
The Art of Spirited Away
Understanding Comics
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High Priority

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Programming the Universe
Energy and Civilization: A History
The beginning of infinity explanations that transform the world
The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger
The Selfish Gene

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Writing

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Letters to a Young Contrarian
Understanding Comics
Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels
Alan Moore Writing For Comics
Comics and Sequential Art
Framed Ink

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Graphic Novels

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Y: The Last Man, Vol. 3: One Small Step
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Y: The Last Man, Vol. 7 Paper Dolls

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Comics

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Bone, Vol. 1: Out from Boneville
Maus: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Understanding Comics
Watchmen

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Dnf

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The Marvels
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Stone Fruit
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The Paris Apartment
Kurashi at Home: How to Organize Your Space and Achieve Your Ideal Life
The Desert and Its Seed

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300 books

Owned

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Cat with a Clue
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Academ's Fury
Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, Vol. 11
These Three Remain

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Art

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Janson's History of Art
The Doré Bible Illustrations
Doré's Illustrations for "Paradise Lost"
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Status Own

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Mission of Honor
The Hittite
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Dr. Joseph Warren: The Boston Tea Party, Bunker Hill, and the Birth of American Liberty

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The Tao of Pooh
Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Dune
The Secrets of Consulting
How to Cook Everything: The Basics: Simple Recipes Anyone Can Cook
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