"But this wasn't what people were picking up from the book. They were talking about the nature of cartoons, and they were talking about the combination of words and pictures. That one comes up a lot. And they were comparing the experience of surfing the Web to the alchemy that occurs between the panels. " I'm glad to see this book [<a href = "http://scottmccloud.com/objects/uc/uc.html">Understanding Comics</a>] getting around. I read it a few times over when it first came out. A couple years ago I started to see it popping up in art schools and recently more and more web people are takling about it. It's a truly remarkable piece of work!