In this book, he delves into the narrative tools, principles and practices comics use. Eisner made this set of books to help teach his students and others about comics better. A prestigious comic award is named after him, he is known for The Spirit comic amongst other works. Overview: Will Eisner, an influential cartoonist/comic artist have made a set of books pertaining to visual storytelling and more specifically comics. Summary: Whether you should buy this book or not.
Usefulness: How useful the book is, does the book help to solve the problem you bought the book for. Inspiration: Does the book give a spark to light the artistic flames of creation or whatever, does the book inspire/make you want to draw and create your own things yourself.Įase of Access: Certain books are only helpful to certain levels of artists, by this I mean technical skill, some books won’t make sense to beginners, others will be telling what experts already know, so starting from Beginner, to Intermediate, to Expert. Overview: General, short, introduction of the book. The categories for instructional books are: Overview, Inspiration, Ease of Access (Beginner, Intermediate, Expert), Usefulness, Summary. Art books do take up a lot of space and if you don’t have a lot of space, its best to buy only the best of the best or what you yourself like. I have certain categories to access them, for instructional/how-to books I have other categories. For non-instructional art books, like say artbooks of movies, games, etc. So, in both my non-instructional and instructional art book reviews, I don’t really want to give a score/rating system to the books but have categories in which I feel are important for an artbook to succeed.
Basically, he goes into comics and principles and practices of comics, the imagery, framing, narrative tools of comics, how they work, how to use them towards your own favour to better tell a story to the reader/have the reader understand it better.
If the second published Will Eisner’s book about Visual Storytelling is the introduction to how visual storytelling works in different mediums and media, then this (which is his first book) is where he goes in-depth about comic tools and principles, how different speech bubbles affect what context the reader sees the words in them are in, is it a thought bubble, is it a sound coming from a speaker, etc, how framing and pacing and timing works in comics specifically.
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