TY - BOOK AU - Eisner,Will AU - Poplaski,Peter TI - Expressive anatomy for comics and narrative: principles and practices from the legendary cartoonist T2 - The Will Eisner library SN - 9780393331288 AV - PN6710 .E56 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - New York PB - W.W. Norton KW - Comic books, strips, etc KW - Authorship KW - Cartooning KW - Technique KW - fast KW - Figurenzeichnung KW - swd KW - Comic N1 - The human machine -- Muscles activate movement -- Draftsmanship -- The head -- All living things want to survive -- The language of posture and gesture -- Human emotion -- Aggressive physical action -- Taking pictures -- Physical communication -- Using the expressive capacity of the human body -- Posture and power -- Anatomy, staging and the total composition -- Anatomy and stereotype -- Physiognomy -- Acting -- In practice -- Schools offering courses in comics creation N2 - In this work, Eisner reveals his techniques and theories about movement, body mechanics, facial expressions, and posture: the key components and, generally, the most challenging aspects of effective graphic storytelling ER -