Editing Understanding Comics (section)

== Publication history ==
Excerpts from  ''Understanding Comics'' were published in ''[[Amazing Heroes]]'' #200 (Apr. 1992); that issue later won the 1992 [[Don Thompson Award]] for Best Non-Fiction Work. McCloud previewed the book at the August 1992 [[Comics Arts Conference]].<ref>[http://fac.hsu.edu/duncanr/cac_past_presentations.htm Past Presentations list at the CAC website]. Retrieved January 27, 2008.</ref>

''Understanding Comics'' was first published by [[Tundra Publishing]]; [[reprint]]ings have been released by [[Kitchen Sink Press]], [[DC Comics]]' [[Paradox Press]], DC's [[Vertigo Comics|Vertigo]] line, and [[HarperCollins|HarperPerennial]]. The book was edited by [[Mark Martin (cartoonist)|Mark Martin]], with lettering by Bob Lappan.

=== Editions ===
==== Softcover ====
* Tundra (1993): {{ISBN|1-56862-019-5}}
* Kitchen Sink (Jan. 1993): {{ISBN|0-87816-243-7}}
* [[William Morrow Paperbacks]] (April 1994): {{ISBN|0-06-097625-X}}
* Paradox Press/DC (May 1999): {{ISBN|1-56389-557-9}}
* [[Harper Perennial]] (2004)

==== Hardcover ====
* Kitchen Sink (Aug. 1993): {{ISBN|0-87816-244-5}}
* Vertigo/DC Comics (2000): {{ISBN|1-56389-759-8}}

=== Sequels ===
McCloud has followed up ''Understanding Comics'' with ''[[Reinventing Comics]]'' (2000), in which he suggested ways for the medium to change and grow; and ''[[Making Comics]]'' (2006), a study of methods of constructing comics.