Research Catalog

Title

Graphic storytelling and visual narrative : principles and practices from the legendary cartoonist / Will Eisner.

Author

Eisner, Will

Publication

New York : W.W. Norton, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

Eisner, Will.

Description

xvii, 169 p. : chiefly ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

Learn how to control a story effectively using a broad array of techniques. With examples from Will Eisner's own catalog and other masters, this book distills the art of graphic storytelling into principles that every comic artist, writer, and filmmaker should know.

Series Statement

• The Will Eisner library
• Eisner, Will. Will Eisner library

Uniform Title

Graphic storytelling

Alternative Title

Graphic storytelling

Subject

• Comic books, strips, etc. > Authorship
• Comic books, strips, etc. > Illustrations
• Cartooning > Technique
• Graphic novels > Authorship

Genre/Form

Illustrated works

Note

• Originally published in 1996 with the title: Graphic storytelling.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 166).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The story of storytelling -- What is a story? -- Telling a story -- Images as narrative tools -- All kinds of stories -- The reader -- Reader influences -- Ideas -- The writing process -- Storytellers -- Artistic style and storytelling -- Comics and the internet -- Further information on webcomics -- Observations on story -- SWchools offering courses on comic creation..

ISBN

• 9780393331271 (pbk.)
• 039333127X (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008019796

OCLC

• 227191897
• SCSB-10679849

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library