Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud

Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud was a wonderful book to read. I thought it was neat that this book about comics explaining them to you is done in a comic strip style, very nifty. Before reading this book, I hardly acknowledged the effort that gets put into creating them, or the fact that EVERYTHING is done on purpose, every little detail. I think what I found the most interesting part of reading this was probably the Six Steps, in which the artist takes to create the comic. The steps include Idea/Purpose, Form, Idiom, Structure, Craft, and Surface. And not only that, but Scott furthermore discusses that these artists usually fall within two categories, depending on which step, out of the first two, they decide to take. If you usually begin with Idea and purpose, then you would be considered a great storyteller. On the other hand, if you choose Form first, then you are considered an artist who likes to shake things up, also considered pioneers or revolutionaries. So although the entire book was fascinating, that had to probably be the most interesting part for me.