The Tribes of Art

Certain tensions crop up over and again in conversations about art, be it art v commerce, truth v beauty or the ever popular form v content. Now comics, once derided as “just for kids” but now the source of some of our most powerful storytelling, have entered the high falutin’ fray in the form of Scott McCloud, leading theorist of comics and graphic novels.

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Published by Damien Walter

Writer and storyteller. Contributor to The Guardian, Independent, BBC, Wired, Buzzfeed and Aeon magazine. Special forces librarian (retired). Teaches the Rhetoric of Story to over 35,000 students worldwide.

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