“This would be a great book to read if you had an idea for a comic and didn’t really have the skills.
Scott McCloud isn’t afraid to show how the sausage is made, and I think that for me, a reader who enjoys comics but doesn’t so much want to write them, it took away just a little of the magic. This is totally a good thing, not a slam. The book sets out to explain how to do things within comics, and it does so just right. But for me, right now, I like a little mystery. I like to feel a certain way in comics and wonder what happened. I don’t like to know what the author is doing.
But seriously, if you’re someone who wants to make comics, pick this up and flip to the exercises at the end of any of the chapter. And for the sake of reader clarity, I urge you to pay attention to what he says about complicated, busy layouts that make comis hard to read.”