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Scott McCloud Biography

Scott McCloud (born Scott McLeod on June 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist and comics theorist. He is best known for his non-fiction books about comics, Understanding Comics (1993), Reinventing Comics (2000), and Making Comics (2006).

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By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.

Artist, Essentials, Stripping, Meaning, Image

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.

Done, Opportunity, Producing, Start, Toss, Way

Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.

Art, Two, Survival, Basic, See

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

Always Trying, Career, Careers, Comics, Reinvent, Trying

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

Dad, Inventor, Rosy, Technology, Thinking, View

My first influences were superhero artists.

Artist, Superhero, Firsts, Artists, Influences

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.

Dad, Technology, Mind, Engineer, Saw

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.

Brilliant, Community, Newcomers, Scene

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

Explaining, Familiar, Hood, Territory, Under

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, Customers, Giving, Ideas, Publishers, Simply

Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe.

Bigger, Circumscribe, Scene, Webcomics

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

Communication, Individual, Today, Voice, Voices

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

Thinking, Nonfiction, Has Beens, Comics, Nearly, Think

Space does for comics what time does for film!

Doe, Film, Space, Time

To kill a man between panels is to condemn him to a thousand deaths.

Condemn, Kill, Man, Men, Panels, Thousand

The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption,. . . the infinite canvas.

Canvas, Infinite, Path, Printed

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.

Book, Average, Want, Scope, System

As I see it, mainstream comics now speak only to the hardcore few who stayed; conversing in a weird, garbled, visual pig latin only they can understand - rendering the term 'mainstream' a hollow joke - while the true mainstream, the other 99. 9% of the populace, find enjoyment elsewhere.

Book, Elsewhere, Garbled, Latin, Pigs, Rendering

I wouldn't necessarily have been making books about how to make comics if I'd really felt I knew how to make comics.

Book, Has Beens, Felt, Comics, Make

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

Backwards, Difficult, Kind, Look, Looks

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