Lovely, Wonderful Dead Trees

Before moving onto close ups, I thought I’d share some of my favorite books on visual storytelling.  

Good starter books for any sequential art:

Comics and Sequential Art

By Will Eisner 

(Considered the Father of Comic Books. It’s sad that a lot of people don’t know of him.)

Graphic Storytelling and Visual Narrative

            By Will Eisner

From Word to Image: Storyboarding and the Filmmaking Process

By Marcie Begleiter

Visual Storytelling: The Art and Technique

By Tony C. Caputo

More advanced books:

Film Directing: Shot by Shot

By Steven D. Katz

Comics Above Ground: How Sequential Art Affects Mainstream Media

By Durwin S. Talon

If you can find any used film directing text books, those are usually golden too.

These focus on comics, but are also very good for any visual storytelling:

Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

By Scott McCloud

Panel Discussions 

            By Durwin S. Talon

            (Very good book!  In depth interviews with many comic artists explaining their work) 

Artists on Comic Art

            By Mark Salisbury

Reference:

Setting Up Your Shots: Great Camera Moves Every Filmmaker Should Know

            By Jeremy Vineyard

            (Good reference book with all the different types of shots)

Random:

Fight directing for the Theatre

           By J. Allen Suddeth