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Ī revised version of Reinventing Comics was released in 2009. In an interview with Joe Zabel, McCloud stated that he was so eager to get to the second half of the book that he rushed through the first portion.

Because of the low power of the machine he was using, McCloud had a difficult time working on the book. McCloud drew Reinventing Comics digitally, using a small Wacom tablet. In particular, he considers his web comic I Can't Stop Thinking to be a continuation of Reinventing Comics, though he has continued to write about the future of comics in many different forms, as he acknowledges Reinventing Comics is 'a product of its time'. Īs promised in the book, McCloud has offered annotations, addenda and his further-developing thoughts about the future of comics on his web site. The book caused considerable controversy in the comics industry, McCloud famously noting that it had been described as 'dangerous'. Reinventing Comics explains twelve 'revolutions' which McCloud predicts are necessary for the comic book to survive as a medium, focusing especially on online comics. Paradox Press, formerly an imprint of DC Comics, is now defunct and William Morrow is now a division of HarperCollins, so subsequent printings of the book have been released by HarperCollins. Reinventing Comics was released in 2000 in separate editions published by Paradox Press and William Morrow Paperbacks.

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