Understanding Comics¶
McCloud, S. (1993). Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art. Kitchen Sink Press.
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- Narrative Gap
- In comics craft, Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics (1993) makes the device operational under the name closure
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“arrangement with Kitchen Sink Press. [UNDERSTANDING COMICS]: THE INVISIBLE ART Copyright © 1993”
- In comics craft, Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics (1993) makes the device operational under the name closure
- Plot
- Literature, drama, and screenwriting — the origin and primary home, where the chronicle/plot cut, the four commitments, and the canonical schemata (Freytag's pyramid, three-act, the hero's journey) structure storytelling craft and dramatic theory. Narrative-driven game design — RPG and adventure games using plot structure consciously, and emergent open-world narrative analyzed in plot terms. Comic and graphic narrative — panel-by-panel sequencing operating on plot logic, the unrendered gap between panels part of the arrangement
This sourceMcCloud's account of panel-to-panel closure in comics, where the reader completes the interval between panels.
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“DOWN INTO TWO SUBSETS- THE FIRST TYPE-- PANEL -TO -PANEL CLOSURE”
- Literature, drama, and screenwriting — the origin and primary home, where the chronicle/plot cut, the four commitments, and the canonical schemata (Freytag's pyramid, three-act, the hero's journey) structure storytelling craft and dramatic theory. Narrative-driven game design — RPG and adventure games using plot structure consciously, and emergent open-world narrative analyzed in plot terms. Comic and graphic narrative — panel-by-panel sequencing operating on plot logic, the unrendered gap between panels part of the arrangement
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