Based on Will Eisner'slegendary course at New York'sSchool of Visual Arts, these guides haveinspired generations ofartists, students,teachers, and fans. In Comics and Sequential Art, Eisner reveals the basic buildingblocks andprinciples of comics, includingimagery, the frame, and the application oftime, space, and visual forms.Graphic Storytelling andVisual Narrative teaches how to control a story effectively using a broadarray oftechniques. Withexamples from Eisner's own catalog and such masters as H. Foster, R. Crumb,Art Spiegelman, Milton Caniff, AlCapp, andGeorge Herriman, these books distill the art ofgraphic storytelling into principles that everycomic artist, writer, andfilmmaker should know.