Scott McCloud: Understanding comics

It's funny how optimistic they were of future technologies at the time, almost funny.

This was terrible. 10mins of ego stroking nonsense at the start. Then onwards to him just talking hypothetically about the future about comics advancing, trying to blow everyones minds. I was here to learn something. Left with nothing.

Man peeped into the future alright

watching this 14 years later and it still holds up.

Great speech. 👏

Noooo
I feel so bad for his grandma

Hasta oí en dia no he visto el salto final hacia el comic en la web tal vez sea por que los medios están muy saturados de contenido y la gente no puede leer este tipos de comics

McCloud was so fucking ahead of his time. Just look at WEBTOONS. Truly genius.

Brilliant. That’s really all I can say. Utterly brilliant. Ok I could say more. This was special to watch and just having read Understanding Comics this sunk in even more! That book is a masterpiece and hearing him speak here, can see how intelligent this man is as well. Fascinating to see the way he looks at storytelling art history, time and space. He’s a fantastic orator as well, great speaker. So well delivered and concise. Could listen to him speak way longer and just learn. I love the idea of the ever expanding capabilities of comics, shocking to think how under appreciated comics are still…we can’t ever get rid of the written word with pictures. Juxtaposed deliberate sequences…Once you allow yourself to get into them and see what they can do for you, (comics) there’s truly nothing like it. For anyone contemplating starting, do it!!

Traditional reading methods are still the most popular. Manga is the most common way of reading, and its sales and readership are so many times higher than Webtoons and other scrollers.

what was the second comic featured in the presentation?

This has aged like the finest wine.

That meanig of science doesnt make sense.

This is weird...that Scott McCloud doesnt sound the same as the Scott McCloud from the comics BA-DUM!

I never thought Scott McCloud has such a daaaark sense of humor I love it

That dude, who cackled at "the heat death of the universe" comics in complete silence... I connect with you on some kind of level

And now we have "Webtoon" which is exactly what Scott predicted. True genius.

Webtoons, for one, successfully makes use of this exact scroll function he was imagining in the 90s. Pretty awesome!

Waste video

What a nerd

If this Ted talk was just a year later there would've been a lot more to talk about regarding hypertext comics

Webcomics these days do exactly this -- they have a "single unbroken reading line on an infinite canvas."

Wow this guy predicts webtoon and webcomics

dude was talking about scrolling functions 10 years ago. look at where we at now

Wow, so that’s what Scott McCloud looks like?

Ignore this comment as this is a personal msg for someone

For Michael

Its ok if we can't be together for now. Im not sure about the reason why but im sure that there must be a reason for that.

Of course, i would want to be w/ you, have fun with you, to gradually uncover our true selves with each other but I'm sure theres a reason why it cant happen now.

In every desire that i have, your presence is always included there.

Webcomics!! :)

i hate that thinks like this are 9 years ago

Does anyone know the name of Jason Lex's comicbook and where to find it?

i'm watching this in 2018, and i love this mans book "understanding comics" i think that any art teacher who really loves art and all its uses should read it. I'd recommend it to even art history teachers!! or any teacher of an art related subject!

Genius even in 2017.

Scott McCloud was right about so much, but his ideas on how to present comics in the digital age was so, so wrong. Scrolling through panels in all directions? I mean even the way he presents it looks awful. I know this talk was 8 years ago, but even then websites designed that way sucked. When it comes to print, he totally gets it. Digital, not so much.

It's a sport car

Anyone else thinking of Awful Hospital or, more likely, Homestuck when he talks about the future of comics? Because, both o those do some amazing things with space, though the former does show he was a bit mistaken when he dismissed the possibilities of interactive comics.

what a random begening. I like the last 11 min. the most!

You know, this is freaking incredible. This is something I've been thinking about a lot too, but from a slightly different perspective and motivation. Comic books in general, even with the movies, have been falling in popularity. But what do movies have that comics don't? The usual answer would be you don't put effort into watching a movie. But I think the real reason is that movies bring a world like none other, and books bring a world much like comic books. But if we could expand that, make the comic panels become somewhat of a world, it would be incredible.

I nominate this TED talk as one of the best I have seen. I reviewed it to see if I should refer it to a friend of mine who is into comics and discovered the clearest description of the power and potential of communications that I have ever heard - and told with a personal story that adds the dimensions just as he describes them. Brilliant. This belongs in every humanities course and I intend to use it in my psychology and religious studies courses as well.

I've never seen so many intuitive leaps between so many disciplines--from physics to psychology to archaeology and anthropology to visual art to neurology, and beyond.  Wow.  I suppose I will spend the next few months unpeeling the layers of insights that McCloud has presented to me in this video.  Thank you!

What is this like seriously james grey agrees

nothing meaningful in this video

HIGHLY INFORMATIVE  THANKS  A   LOT

I loved his books. I also am going to try his 24 hour comic concept next month in August 2014. I want to do this challenge and add another layer, where the comic will be optimized for the Kindle and released onto the Amazon marketplace within that time frame too. Anyone else interested in this idea?

Mangastream brought me here :)

The man is a genius. His books "Making Comics" and "Understanding Comics" are required reading for anyone who wants to give comic book making a try, and also for anyone who reads comics because these books will give you an in depth understanding and hence appreciation of this sometimes overlooked art form.

this brief 17 min talk is surely WAY over the heads of the  participants in the Audience...

he wrote THREE full graphic Novels to cover these ideas,

and trying to Synopsize it into a 15-20 Min., PowerPOint Demonstration.

If I was in the Audience I'd be like "HUH?? WTF???"

but because I have read all 3 books, I can follow his concepts and train of Thought.

Anyone interested in what he's trying to get across,
read these three Graphic Novels:

1 Understanding Comic
2: Re-INventing Comics
3. Making Comics

I saw him in Vienna, and he talked way longer than here- for free. It was really cool and personal. I don't know what this TED-stuff is all about..

Vertical comics are a thing, so what this guy is proposing already exists.

I honestly feel that breaking down and super- analyzing an art-form like this is NOT conducive to a progress in that field whatsoever. in fact, i'm sure that, people READ INTO comics, art, visuals, stories, what they themselves wish to see, feel, hear, understand, relate to. Art is a VERY personal matter, and shoulfsd not be approached scientifically because there's no AUTHORITY in any field of Art, it should be left open to natural progress, creativity and "what is beautiful" to the viewer.