By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning. — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas. — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
“By stripping down an image to its essential "meaning", an artist can amplify that meaning in a way that realistic art can't.” — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year. — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
“...when you look at a photo or realistic drawing of a face, you see it as the face of another . But when you… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning. — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
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… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
I had a lot of ideas on how comics worked and pretty early on I had this idea that it would be fun to… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form. — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me. — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be. — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
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… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I may have drawn an axe being raised in this example, but I'm not the one who let it drop or decided how hard… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
