Updated at 7:23 p.m., Monday, August 13, 2007
Comic artist, author gives talk at Doris Duke tomorrow
Advertiser Staff
Free Lecture: Scott McCloud: "Reinventing Art in the Internet Age"Tuesday, Aug. 14 at 7:30 p.m.
Doris Duke Theatre, Honolulu Academy of Arts
Weather permitting, author, artist, and internet pioneer Scott McCloud gives a free lecture 7:30 p.m. tomorrow at the Doris Duke Theatre.
After appearing at the San Diego SIGGRAPH convention, where he was a featured guest speaker, Scott brings a multimedia survey of the history and future of illustrative art to Honolulu, for his first appearance in the Islands.
McCloud has been writing and drawing comics since 1984 and has drawn the "Superman" comic. He wrote three books on exactly why and how the art of sequential storytelling works, and explaining the finer points that make it live: "Understanding Comics," "Reinventing Comics," and "Making Comics."
He was one of the first artists to seriously explore the possibilities of the digital canvas of cyberspace, and helped foster an explosion of Internet-based Web comics, following the success of his strip, ZOT.
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."
Scott's new book, "Making Comics," explores the art and craft of telling stories visually.
