Your English teacher lied to you about comics.
Comic books are a medium as diverse as movies and encourage more thought than video games. Yet this misunderstood medium has always been the dirty little secret of the literature world. From the immigrant who learns English by reading Superman comics to the child who develops a love of literature from the X-Men, comics have kept America reading for decades with fantastic tales, well structured stories and amazing fantasies.
Writing
Paul Dini and Scott McCloud preaching the gospel with receipts.
Production
Scrappy indie doc punching above its weight class.
Director
Todd Kent
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Scott McCloud appears here fresh off his 'Understanding Comics' fame, essentially playing himself: the medium's most visible academic defender.
This 2009 release dropped right as the MCU was about to make comics inescapable — the doc's underdog energy feels almost quaint now.
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