| Reinventing Comics | |
|---|---|
| Author(s) | Scott McCloud |
| Pages | 250 |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-060-95350-0 |
| OCLC Number | 44654496 |
| Preceded by | Understanding Comics |
| Followed by | Making Comics |
Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form () is a 2000 book written by comic book writer and artist Scott McCloud. It was a thematic sequel to his critically acclaimed Understanding Comics, and was followed by Making Comics.[1]
Reinventing Comics (RC) explains twelve "revolutions" which McCloud predicts are necessary for the comic book to survive as a medium, focusing especially on online comics. The book caused considerable controversy in the comics industry, McCloud famously noting that it had been described as "dangerous".[2]
As promised in the book, McCloud has offered annotations, addenda and his further-developing thoughts about the future of comics on his web site. In particular, he considers his web comic I Can't Stop Thinking to be a continuation of RC, though he has continued to write about the future of comics in many different forms, as he acknowledges RC is "a product of its time".[3]