Anyway, it's worth noting as McCloud did last week that his 50-states tour with his family, lecturing and speaking in support of Making Comics has passed its halfway point. There aren't many cartoonists out there that could take something that sounds like the first 12 minutes of a Rob Zombie movie and make it its own unique artistic experience. It also strikes me that Making Comics serves as a sort of barometer for the way we talk about comics, moving from a place when Understanding Comics came out where people pretty much hugged it or frowned at it for a few years before delving into its issues to a present where we almost immediately absorb Making Comics and its synthesis of various ideas into their own relationships with the form.
