Posted at 2:51 p.m., Thursday, August 9, 2007
Talk on Art in the Internet Age, Tuesday at Doris Duke
Advertiser Staff
Free Lecture: Scott McCloud: "Reinventing Art in the Internet Age"Tuesday, August 14 at 7:30 p.m.
Doris Duke Theatre, Honolulu Academy of Arts
Author, artist, and internet pioneer Scott McCloud gives a free lecture on Tuesday, August 14 at 7:30 p.m. at the Doris Duke Theatre Direct from the San Diego SIGGRAPH convention, where he was a featured guest speaker, Scott brings his fast paced multimedia intensive survey of the history and future of illustrative art to Honolulu for the first time.
McCloud has been writing and drawing comics since 1984 and has drawn the "Superman" comic. He became the man who wrote the book (three books actually: "Understanding Comics," "Reinventing Comics," and "Making Comics") on exactly why and how the art of sequential storytelling works, and explaining the finer points that make it live.
One of the first artists to seriously explore the possibilities of the infinite digital canvas of cyberspace, McCloud inspired a generation to push themselves and the technology, and fathered an explosion of Internet-based Web comics, following the success of his strip, ZOT.
Bolstered by the literary ambitions of the "graphic novel" movement, a flood of international influences, and the growing importance of new technologies, the comics landscape shifts regularly in surprising and increasingly unpredictable directions. McCloud puts all these trends into perspective, in a visual presentation.
His book "Understanding Comics" was a New York Times Notable book for 1994 and is available in 16 languages. "Sin City" and "300" creator Frank Miller called him "just about the smartest guy in comics." His new book, "Making Comics," explores the art and craft of telling stories visually.
