reinventing comics scott mccloud pdf download

His suggestions are amazingly prescient: 1. However, their very unreliability and discordance reinstates the fact that whatever meaning is distilled from the novel, needs to be personal. Published in the year 2000, when comics were in a slump, Scott McCloud created Reinventing Comics as a recommendation of things for the industry to focus on as a way of moving forward. This suggests that the epigraphs that Moore chooses are unreliable as essentialisations or even as crutches for interpretation of the novel. Therefore, Shelley’s poem comes off to the reader as misplaced and discordant.

Through the analysis of the two poems’ (Smith’s and Shelley’s Ozymandias) relation to the novel, this essay elucidates the deconstructive nature of Watchmen and of Smith’s poem: they alienate the reader from the world of the novel and defy the reader’s attempt to engage with their characters. Horace Smith has stronger similarities to The Watchmen due to its enmeshed structure, the relation between the characters and their diegesis, the treatment of time and space and the style. Shelley’s work does not connect well to the novel due to its relative clarity in structure.

Narrowing down on the poem ‘Ozymandias’ by Percy Shelley (referenced in the novel) and its lesser known counterpart by Horace Smith, also named ‘Ozymandias’, I will study mutual aspects of both the poems and the novel and explore their relations. This essay explores how these references and epigraphs affect the reader’s interpretation of the text, besides merely enriching their literary experience. Watchmen is a comic book series that contains a vast number of cultural references from a plethora of sources.

Reinventing comics scott mccloud pdf download