Scott McCloud
Scott McCloud
Scott McCloudis an American cartoonist and comics theorist. He is best known for his non-fiction books about comics, Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, and Making Comics...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth10 June 1960
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
east prepare sight time
It's going to get bad. It's not a pretty sight for East Texas. It's time for SWEPCO to prepare for its own customers. We are already mobilizing our troops," ()
artist superhero firsts
My first influences were superhero artists.
communication voice today
Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.
heart criticism feedback
When you're free of editorial control, you owe it to yourself to obtain feedback from friends and readers. Some take those criticisms to heart and incorporate it into their work, and some ignore them.
book apologizing comic
Form and content must never apologize for each other.
men thousand
To kill a man between panels is to condemn him to a thousand deaths.
book ideas giving
The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they didn't get - and they left.
space doe film
Space does for comics what time does for film!
artist essentials stripping
By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.
dad technology mind
My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.
years lifetime
It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year.
careers drawing approach
It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.
looks kind difficult
I've always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history.
opportunity done way
And what better way to reinvent the form than to toss virtually 99% of everything that's been done with it and start with a brand-new canvas, reinvent it from the ground up? Digital comics gave me the opportunity to do that, and producing things digitally gave me the opportunity to do that.