Scott McCloud: Understanding comics

jojosanz Says:

Jan 17, 2009 - I've read his book, I found it very insightful and useful. Yet his efforts for using the computer to evolve comic book narrative are hardly innovative or thorough; its pretty evident it's just scrolling through pages. I guess he has to ask himself again what is it he hopes to get out of digital media.

Slance1Himself Says:

Jan 18, 2009 - Wow... At the bottom right at 06:53 it's my biggest idol - Johnny Rotten, this made the video even better! :D

Slance1Himself Says:

Jan 18, 2009 - To Teabonesteak: dude! Are you a PiL fan? Or at least a Johnny fan? :D

BodaciousBurnley Says:

Jan 18, 2009 - Can anyone give me some insight to the "McLuhanesque mistake" he refers to around 11:00? Who was this man and what did he do that caused him to be associated with the inefficient application of established rules to new paradigms? I thought that maybe he was talking about Herbert Marshall McLuhan, but the "medium is the message" philosophy doesn't seem to be quite what McCloud is talking about. Any facts from those more knowledgeable than I?

Teabonesteak Says:

Jan 18, 2009 - THHIISS IS NOT A LOVE SOOOOOOONG! THHIISS IS NOT A LOVE SOOOOOOONG! THHIISS IS NOT A LOVE SOOOOOOONG! THHIISS IS NOT A LOVE SOOOOOOONG! Damn right I'm a Pil/Sex pistols/all around johnny fan!

Slance1Himself Says:

Jan 18, 2009 - Niiiiiiiiiiice :D This is what you want... this is what you get... Dude I freakin LOVE John! :D

sethnehil Says:

Jan 19, 2009 - McLuhan: "We drive forward looking in the rearview mirror." Habits or forms of previous media and technology shape the new. So the computer monitor was/is treated like a page in a book - when of course it is not.

inko9nito Says:

Feb 10, 2009 - Brilliant presentation!

autobahnhotel Says:

Feb 11, 2009 - I don't know if I agree with this...why does he feel we need to trash paper pages? That scrolling at the end looked just as inconvineient if not more. Isn't film already the ultimate infinite canvas?

EB88 Says:

Feb 21, 2009 - Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupppppeeeeeeer!!!!

warchild81 Says:

Mar 5, 2009 - Scott McLEOD is my uncle

falsafa Says:

Mar 15, 2009 - u hungry?

WarriorAlien Says:

Mar 16, 2009 - I only just recently read Understanding Comics, and while I've never picked up any of McCloud's fiction works like Zot! but it's evident that he truly understands the language of the medium. He seems like a friendly individual here.

HigherPlanes Says:

Mar 28, 2009 - No, that would be virtual reality.

keepitsimplenow4590 Says:

Apr 19, 2009 - 1. Cover your mouth with your hand 2. Make a wish 3.Close your hand (fist) 4. Hold you hand at heart for 5 seconds 5. Send this to 3 more videos 6. Tommorrow will be the best day ever it actually worked

sunrisewalker Says:

May 21, 2009 - Based on my reading of McCleod I don't think that he is trashing the paper page, but encouraging the debate. because when artists contemplate debates like these, they create art to give their answer. And that is where great art in any media comes from- from people looking for answers and grappling with problems.

KidSoupTV Says:

Jun 1, 2009 - nice vid

NorseRonin Says:

Jun 26, 2009 - "Scott McLEOD is my uncle". yeah, but what does that have to do with scott McCloud?

rubbermuck Says:

Aug 11, 2009 - Alan Moore played a lot with panel layouts, especially in Watchmen. It may be true that comic makers are stuck to a certain size of the page and pivotal moments really only happen at the turn of a page(for surprise), I don't know if it's a limitation immediately. It is interesting to follow these computer-comics though. An interesting one I read was "A lesson is learned but the damage is irreversible".

1richards Says:

Aug 14, 2009 - Actually, then, by Scott McCloud's logic, film is a version of the comic. You have consecutive frames of still images, that, when seen together sequentially, tell a linear story. Now, both media, as they stand today, have limitations as to all that they can tell the viewer, but if both comics and film follow the path that McCloud has depicted here, I believe that they may eventually merge, meld, combine, into a fully realized experience that utilizes all of the human senses.

DCRIS59 Says:

Aug 15, 2009 - This is a great vid. i saw it first on TED's site.

theLUB Says:

Aug 19, 2009 - Scott McCloud real name is Scott McLeod

ePhilosopher9 Says:

Aug 26, 2009 - Visions of the future begin to manifest themselves... like in Time Frames or abstracted further from resemblances of Walter Benjamin Work of art in the age of mechanical Reproduction. i.e. Art on an Easel in 2D.

Idude893 Says:

Nov 16, 2009 - This guy's book was like my personal Bible.

hariprasada Says:

Nov 16, 2009 - traduzcan esto al español