Shawn Towner reviewed Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud
Review of 'Understanding Comics' on 'Storygraph'
2 stars
Like reading dumbed-down version of early film theory. McCloud desires to establish comics as a legitimate artistic and narrative medium, and he largely succeeds in doing that. However, he apparently couldn't (or didn't want to) get the rights to use other comics as examples. Because of this, the book operates almost exclusively in the abstract, rather than providing concrete examples to fully explain his theoretical musings.