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
territory explaining familiar
The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.
book ifs has-beens
I wouldn't necessarily have been making books about how to make comics if I'd really felt I knew how to make comics.
writing thinking stories
If you just write the kinds of stories you think others will want to read, you'll be competing with cartoonists who are far more enthusiastic for that kind of comic than you are, and they'll kick your ass every time.
bridges two mind
A medium is a bridge between two minds.
always-trying careers trying
All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.
careers drawing approach
It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.
years lifetime
It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year.
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.
book apologizing comic
Form and content must never apologize for each other.
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.
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.
scene bigger
Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe.
toss want bigs
There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future.
community brilliant scene
If a comic comes out on the scene and it's really knock-out brilliant, the community is pretty good about getting the word about good newcomers.