Scott McCloud Quotes

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

Potential, Comics, Nonfiction

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

Career, Through, Trying

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, reinvent it from the ground up? Digital comics gave me the opportunity to do that, and producing things digitally gave me the opportunity to do that.
Scott McCloud

Everything, Done, Start

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.
Scott McCloud

Fun, Pretty, Idea

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

History, Difficult, Actually

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.
Scott McCloud

Good, Pretty, Getting

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 dollar.
Scott McCloud

Natural, Content, Price

It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.
Scott McCloud

Career, Until, Possible

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

Year, Read, Lifetime

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, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.
Scott McCloud

Science, Technology, Dad

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

Technology, Dad, View

My first influences were superhero artists.
Scott McCloud

Artists, Superhero, Influences

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

Getting, Works, Hood

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 future.
Scott McCloud

History, Future, Big

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

Today, Chance, Few

Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe.
Scott McCloud

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 incorporate it into their work, and some ignore them.
Scott McCloud

Work, Yourself, Heart

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Cartoonist

Born: June 10, 1960

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