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Comics Quotes by Scott McCloud
- Space does for comics what time does for film!
- All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.
- I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.
- 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…
- I've always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history.
- It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.
- The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas.
- I wouldn't necessarily have been making books about how to make comics if I'd really felt I knew how to make comics.
- 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…
- 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…
- Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.
- 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…
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