Scott McCloud Quotes

Scott McCloud — American Cartoonist born on June 10, 1960,

Scott McCloud is an American cartoonist and comics theorist. He is best known for his non-fiction books about comics, Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, and Making Comics... (wikipedia)

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.

I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.

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.

Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.

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.