Scott McCloud

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

— Scott McCloud

“...when you look at a photo or realistic drawing of a face, you see it as the face of another . But…

— Scott McCloud

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

— Scott McCloud

There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire.…

— Scott McCloud

I had a lot of ideas on how comics worked and pretty early on I had this idea that it would be…

— Scott McCloud

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

— Scott McCloud

My first influences were superhero artists.

— Scott McCloud

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

— Scott McCloud

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

— Scott McCloud

Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe.

— Scott McCloud

A medium is a bridge between two minds.

— Scott McCloud

If you just write the kinds of stories you think others will want to read, you'll be competing with cartoonists who are…

— Scott McCloud

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

— Scott McCloud

“I may have drawn an axe being raised in this example, but I'm not the one who let it drop or decided…

— Scott McCloud

My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being…

— Scott McCloud

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

— Scott McCloud

“The panel acts as a sort of general indicator that time or space is being divided. The durations of that time and…

— Scott McCloud

As I see it, mainstream comics now speak only to the hardcore few who stayed; conversing in a weird, garbled, visual pig…

— Scott McCloud

“I guess the basic difference is that animation is sequential in time but in spatially juxtaposed as comics are. Each successive frame…

— Scott McCloud

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

— Scott McCloud

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

“I'm back, boys and girls! back from the pink padded couch palace!”

— Scott McCloud

And what better way to reinvent the form than to toss virtually 99% of everything that's been done with it and start…

— Scott McCloud

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

Form and content must never apologize for each other.

— Scott McCloud