I've always had an interest in cartooning. As a kid, I wanted to be a cartoonist and I could have probably become one, except I lacked the patience to actually do a daily comic strip (and never mind the fact that newspaper comics are nearly impossible to break into and are dying anyway) but I still have a soft spot for cartooning.
So when I heard that Scott McCloud had just released his new book Making Comics, I had to get it.
And I'm glad I did. He covers material that I've never seen covered in any of the “making comic” books I have. More than just drawing characters or how to use an ink pen, he goes into page layout, lettering, pacing, story telling, emotions (or rather, a theory of drawing emotions in chracters) and a dozen other topics I've never seen covered before.
It's also a logical extention of his other two books, Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics (which is the weakest of his three books in my opinion).
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