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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