TY  - BOOK
AU  - Eisner,Will
TI  - Graphic storytelling and visual narrative: principles and practices from the legendary cartoonist 
T2  - The Will Eisner library
SN  - 9780393331271
AV  - PN6710 .E57 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton
KW  - Comic books, strips, etc
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Illustrations
KW  - Cartooning
KW  - Technique
KW  - Graphic novels
N1  - Originally published in 1996 with the title: Graphic storytelling; Includes bibliographical references; INTRODUCTION Comics as a Medium; --1. THE STORY OF STORYTELLING; --2. WHAT IS A STORY; The Function of a Story; --3. TELLING A STORY; Stories Told with Print; Stories Told with Imagery; --4. IMAGES AS NARRATIVE TOOLS; Stereotypical Images; Symbolism; --5. ALL KINDS OF STORIES; Telling Stories to Instruct; Telling a How-To Story; Telling the "Plotless" Story; Telling the Illustrated Story; Telling the Symbolic Story; Telling the Slice-of-Life Story; Telling A Life Story; --6. THE READER; Control of the Reader; Surprise, Shock and Reader Retention; Dialogue: The Reader as Actor; Reader vs. Dialogue; Dialogue vs. Image; Dialogue vs. Action; Lettering Dialogue; Story Momentum; --7. READER INFLUENCES; Reading Rhythm; The Influence of Film on Reading Comics; Film Sequence; Comics Sequence; How Comics Influence Film; National Influences; --8. IDEAS; What If? Let Me Tell You What Happened To; Next My Hero Is Thrown into the Following Adventure; Did You Hear the One About; --9. THE WRITING PROCESS; Writer vs. Graphic Translator; Afterword on Writing; --10. STORYTELLERS; The Short Short Plot; The One-Page Story; The Illustrator-Storyteller; The Totally Graphic Story; --11. ARTISTIC STYLE AND STORYTELLING; The Voice of The Storyteller; And the Storyteller Himself; The Marketplace; And, Finally, The Future. 12. COMICS AND THE INTERNET; The Infinite Canvas; FURTHER INFORMATION ON WEBCOMICS; OBSERVATIONS ON STORY; Joseph Campbell; Roger D. Abrahams; Ladislas Segy; E.H. Gombrich; Further Reading(pages 166); SCHOOLS OFFERING COURSES IN COMICS CREATION
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0817/2008019796.html
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