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“It may just be the blueprint for the very future of the comics industry.The American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California has condemned a newly approved plan from the L.A. This time he’s looking into the future rather than the past.” - Will Wright Scott McCloud has once again transcended the world of comics and tapped into much deeper issues of creativity entertainment and economics. “Anyone involved in interactive entertainment (games, web, etc.) should read this book. Once again, he’s opened the floor to a debate that will no doubt go on for years-this time, with not just the definition of comics, but its very fate at stake.” - Frank Miller “Scott McCloud has got to be just about the smartest guy in comics. It will provoke a lot of arguments, it will make a lot of people think, and it may ultimately change the world a little-which is, after all, what a manifesto is for.” - Neil Gaiman ’Scott McCloud’s Reinventing Comics is a manifesto, and an audacious one, irritating as the grain of sand which may one day produce a pearl. The ultimate challenges of the infinite digital canvas.

Then in Part Two, McCloud paints a breathtaking picture of comics' digital revolutions, including:

Sexual and ethnic representation on comics.

The volatile and shifting public perceptions of comics.

The life of comics as an art form and as literature.

Part One of this fascinating and in-depth book includes: Now, McCloud takes comics to the next level, charting twelve different revolutions in how comics are created, read, and perceived today.

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. In Reinventing Comics-the new century manifesto on the many futures of comics art-t he renowned author of Understanding Comics takes a fascinating look at how imagination and technology are revolutionizing comics.