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17 quotes by Scott McCloud

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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My first influences were superhero artists.

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

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

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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 like to get on to the... →

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Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe.

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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... →

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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... →

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

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

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

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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 them in comics form.

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

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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.

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