All Scott McCloud Quotes
- 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. Activity
- Space does for comics what time does for film! Comics
- To kill a man between panels is to condemn him to a thousand deaths. Condemn
- All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form. All
- I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be. Been
- 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… Been
- I've always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history. Actually Kind
- It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career. Actually Began
- It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year. All
- 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
- My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential. Dad
- The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas. Ancestor
- Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again. Creating
- I wouldn't necessarily have been making books about how to make comics if I'd really felt I knew how to make comics. Been
- Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell. Everyone
- 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 enthusiastic… Ass
- Nobody knows what will work until they try it. Some of comics' biggest success stories in recent years have explored subjects that no one was… Advice
- The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me. Explaining
- 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… All
- Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe. Any
- 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
- My first influences were superhero artists. Artist
- Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard. Chance
- 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… Control
- 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… Any