Re: Will Eisner's "technical comics"

Tori,

Like you, I really like Eisner's graphic novels ("The Building" is
fantastic).
But, as you might know, his non-fictional books are more relevant for
information designers,  they are:

Comics and Sequential Art
http://www.willeisner.com/books/comics_sequential_art.html

and

Graphic Storytelling
http://www.willeisner.com/books/graphic_storytelling.html


José

2008/7/17 Tori Egherman <[email protected]>:

> Thanks for this link Jose. I am a huge Will Eisner fan. Just finished
> Contract with God and To the Heart of the Storm, which were both amazing.
>
> Tori
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 11:37 AM, Jose de Souza <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Sorry, I forgot to mention the title of the book by Mijksenaar and
>> Westendorp: OPEN HERE.
>>
>> 2008/7/17 Jose de Souza <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> Colleagues,
>>>
>>> I am thrilled with the information that the "technical comics" (a term
>>> used by Mijksenaar and Westendorp in the book 1999)
>>> PS Magazine, designed by Will Eisner from 1952 - 1972, was made available
>>> through the Internet.
>>> This amazing research resource is at:
>>>
>>> http://dig.library.vcu.edu/cdm4/index_psm.php?CISOROOT=/psm
>>> VCU Libraries Digital Collections <http://dig.library.vcu.edu/index.php>
>>>
>>>
>>> Even though Will Eisner's work is not traditionally associated with
>>> information design,
>>> I think that we can learn a lot from him and others
>>> "information designers that do not call themselves information
>>> designers"...
>>>
>>> DO YOU AGREE?
>>>
>>> José
>>>
>>> --
>>> José Marconi Bezerra de Souza
>>> PhD Student
>>> Department of Typography & Graphic Communication
>>> The University of Reading
>>>
>>> Member of the Society of Technical Communication
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>>
>>
>> --
>> José Marconi Bezerra de Souza
>> PhD Student
>> Department of Typography & Graphic Communication
>> The University of Reading
>>
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-- 
José Marconi Bezerra de Souza
PhD Student
Department of Typography & Graphic Communication
The University of Reading

Member of the Society of Technical Communication

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