First art book review!

Scott Mccloud is very famous for his work Understanding Comics (which I'll review another time) and I think Making Comics deserves just as much love

It's very unique in the way in which it goes about teaching the art of comic making

Making the book itself a comic makes it very easy to read through and even entertaining

The lesson you learn from it are great for beginner and more intermediate artists

And with the benefit of it being released some years after understanding comics, it touches on aspects of the modern comic industry that haven't existed during the release of understanding comics (digital art, webcomics, etc.)

And last but not least the way he goes in depth, to a point of a psychoanalysis, about the subjects discussed within this book gived me a lot of eye opening experiences

I'd go re read the book to check on one thing and get a completely new perspective on a different thing I also peeked at

Really the biggest downside of the book is the fact Neil Gaiman gets mentioned here and there because him and Scott where close friends but after Neil's crimes were outed Scott declared to cut off contact with him [he posted his stance on bsky when this was revealed and it's really sad to read through and see how tragic this situation was for Scott : ( ]

On a different note, while I don't think it's necessary to make another book like this, I would still like to see his analytical opinions on the webtoon/scroll format! Those would be very interesting

I read always never by the same author/artist so I was really excited to read it! It's very different from AN, in a good way I mean! I really loved Eva and the whole story was very well done! I especially loved how it dealth with the mc being bipolar, it was very respectful imo The art is also amazing! Love how diverse the character designs are, the colors are so yummy and I love the pencil like brush that was used for the lineart! There were small bits here and there that I didn't really like, but it didn't ruin the story for me! ^^

I do suggest seeing the TWs for this graphic novel before reading it as it is a pretty heavy read