November 2025
I love comics! This is a renewal of the IndieWeb Book Club. I invite you to join me in reading 1993’s “Understanding Comics” by Scott McCloud and post about it on your very own website.
Links about this book: Wikipedia · GoodReads · Archive.org
What is this?
IndieWeb Movie Club is–uh–a book club. But it’s also book themed blog carnival!
Submitting your post
Once you’ve posted your post or read or review, please share a link from your own website.
You can share it by sending a webmention to this page.
You can share it by leaving a comment on this page.
You can share it by sending a message via my contact page.
You can share it via email joe@artlung.com.
And then
I will include a link to your post here. Happy reading!
Reads!
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- Understanding Those @?#$%! Comics by Tulips (also experimentally Neocities)
- New media, visual communication, and “Understanding Comics” by Nick Simson
- Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud by Zachary Kai
- IndieWeb Book Club November 2025: Understanding Comics by Sara Jakša
- Art Pop, The Body Electric (Second entry by Tulips)
- November 2025 IndieWeb Book Club (a dialogue and a comic) by Todd Presta
- Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud by Trav
- On revisiting a foundational text by Tracy Durnell
- IndieWeb Book Club: Understanding Comics by James
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eighteen comments...
I have recently been re-reading this and was surprised to see that one of the examples McCloud used in the Picture Plane—right next to Mickey Mouse and in 1993—is Bone
Bone was incredibly exciting in 1993! A true indie, a great line, appealing writing! That it’s still in print justifies its presence!
I hadn’t discovered indies back then. Just read Bone this year!
It is a special comic!
As generative AI’s impact on the creative industries grows, I’ve been thinking about what produces art, and why graphics produced by diffusion models and text…
[…] *(I’d recommend Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics for a breakdown of what the comics medium asks of the reader and creator, and Peter Mendelsund’s What We See When We Read for a graphic meditation on how prose reading works. Bonus: Understanding Comics is the November 2025 IndieWeb Book Club pick!) […]
I read this in 2005… sounds like I’m due for a 20-year revisit!
Hi Joe! Hey all! Gonna tag along n enjoy the book n the book club. It’ll be my first time reading your selected book and my first time in a Book Club. I jus adore comix of all stripes, genres, times and locations and especially how they’ve profoundly impacted me as an artist since I was a lil kid. Aaaand the delightful beautiful exchange (mutation!) of ideas, form, aesthetic, philosophy and radicality between Comics, Comix, (so-called High & Low) Art, Graphic Art & Design and Communication. What punky fun!
Hiya Indieweb Book Clubsters n La Gente Curiosa Del Cómic! What a fun, neat-O n enriching book! So artfully done. Plus, it’s really taking me back to my roots. I wrote a lil about that here in my first share with our group. I’ll have some slightly different content on 2 sites – so check’m both out. I’m excited to check out all your stuff too. OK enjoy!
https://lilindie64.neocities.org/
https://tulips.pckt.blog/understanding-those-at-comics-jb7pt6k
Revisiting a classic by Scott McCloud.
The month is half over. Go read Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud and post that fact to yr website and let me know and I’ll add it to the #IndieWeb Book Club page. It’s in libraries! It’s online! Go! Read! Post!
Hiya Windy Wet Boot Club Fringe people. I posted some mo comix memories, comic book art n free form associations as I’m Understanding Comics. As with my first, my second bloggy share has some slightly different content on 2 sites – so check’m both out. I’m excited to check out all your stuff too. OK enjoy!
https://lilindie64.neocities.org/
https://tulips.pckt.blog/art-pop-the-body-electric-p17fky1
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I recently read Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics, and I was blown away. This book came out in 1993, and I know that makes me really…
[…] the party, as I’ve seen this recommended quite a few times, but I’ve never stopped to read. Joe Crawford threw this title out as the November 2025 IndieWeb Book Club read, and I’m so glad I joined in (both because I enjoyed the book and I am thankful for the […]
Revisiting a 90’s classic for the IndieWeb book club
I’ve been re-reading Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics with the intention of writing about it for the November IndieWeb book club, but I couldn’t think of…
The IndieWeb Book Club choice for November 2025 was Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics. I wanted to write a post about this book, but I have lately found myself spending a lot of time reading books rather than writing.