Scott McCloud Quotes

• 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.

  Scott McCloud

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Control

• Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe.

  Scott McCloud

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Bigger, Scene

• 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.

  Scott McCloud

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Just, Part

• The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that’s fairly familiar territory to me.

  Scott McCloud

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Explaining

• My first influences were superhero artists.

  Scott McCloud

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Artists

• My dad was an inventor, and I think I’ve always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.

  Scott McCloud

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Think

• 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.

  Scott McCloud

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Engineer, Picture

• It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year.

  Scott McCloud

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Lifetime

• It wasn’t until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.

  Scott McCloud

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Actually

• If you think about it, for any kind of content on the web, the natural price per unit of these things should be under a dollar.

  Scott McCloud

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in About, Content

• 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.

  Scott McCloud

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Come

• I’ve always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history.

  Scott McCloud

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Actually

• 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.

  Scott McCloud

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ideas

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

  Scott McCloud

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Potential

• 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.

  Scott McCloud

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Better, Reinvent

• All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.

  Scott McCloud

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Trying, Career

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

  Scott McCloud

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Today

Scott McCloud (17)

Birth:	10th June, 1960
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Cartoonist

Related Authors

• Dan Savage
• Salman Rushdie
• Abigail Reynolds
• John Andrew Holmes
• Nicole Blackman
• Robert Greene
• Dave Ramsey
• Bob Black
• Jenna Hager
• Louise L. Hay

Advertisement

Today's Anniversary - 22nd April

Births

• 1744 - James Sullivan
• 1923 - Aaron Spelling
• 1899 - Vladimir Nabokov
• 1946 - Nicholas Stern
• 1816 - Philip James Bailey

Deaths

• 2005 - Philip Morrison
• 1994 - Richard Nixon
• 1839 - Thomas Haynes Bayly
• 1944 - William H. O`Connell
• 1945 - Kathe Kollwitz