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
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This is part of the mutual assistance program. Companies provide assistance in times of emergencies." ()
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Comics offers tremendous resources to all writers and artists: faithfulness, control, a chance to be heard far and wide without fear of compromise." ()
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Sometimes, that can knock some old tree over that's been sitting all summer," ()
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I had a lot of ideas on how comics worked and pretty early on I had this idea that it would be fun to explain them in comics form.
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Hollywood has a love affair with heroes' stories right now. It depends on people being motivated to make the movies, because first and foremost they have to make a good movie." ()
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That (System Benefit Fund) was set up in the deregulated market. Every month you have the opportunity to check that box. There are about 10,000 customers who contribute to that fund, and we contribute to it in the summer." ()
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They've all had a chance to rest and be in their home base." ()
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We're watching it and tracking it with our sister companies to plan anything." ()
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Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.
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Comic book readers are just as abandoned by the corporate system as the creators, despite the importance supposedly given their hard-earned dollars. The average comics shop can offer only a tiny fraction of an industrywide selection that is itself extremely limited in scope. And even when readers know exactly what they want, the search can be maddeningly futile.
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The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.
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I wouldn't necessarily have been making books about how to make comics if I'd really felt I knew how to make comics.
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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.
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A medium is a bridge between two minds.