## Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics Source URL:: <http://austinkleon.com/2022/04/15/scott-mcclouds-understanding-comics/> ### Highlights > [!quote]+ %%Updated on Sat Apr 16 2022 10:43:03 GMT-0400%% > > This a comic book about comic books. But it’s also much more than that: using the medium of comics, Scott McCloud explains a whole world of visual communication and teaches lessons that apply to anyone working in any kind of visual medium. To quote Art Spiegelman, the “simple-looking tome deconstructs the secret language of comics while casually revealing secrets of time, space, art and the cosmos!”  Originally published in the early 90s, this book has become a contemporary classic, and is in my top 10 all-time influential books on my own practice. Even if you’re not at all interested in comics, I promise that you will learn something from McCloud. And who knows? It might even open up a whole genre for you. I love this book because after you read it, you see the whole world differently.