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Tim Heiderich writes for Bleeding Cool:  Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics was a landmark introduction to the language of sequential art, and with Kickstarter money from some good-natured rubes, my artist and I published a parody of it — the creatively-titled Misunderstanding Comics. So why are we poking fun at a book published over 20 years ago?  As[...]

But if you want to sell comics, there's nothing more controversial in a Superman story than having him lose a fistfight. How did Misunderstanding Comics come about? Why did you choose to parody Understanding Comics rather than parodies like Rich Johnston's own Watchmensch or Civil Wardrobe? Understanding Comics was such a brilliant encapsulation of comics theory and[...]