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)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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, 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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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, which I saw a as kind of frivolous. View quote
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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. View quote
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It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year. View quote
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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. View quote
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It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career. (Scott McCloud)
My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential. View quote
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Scott McCloud

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Photo: Grendelkhan, CC BY-SA 2.5
Occupation: American Cartoonist
Born: June 10, 1960
Quotes count: 12

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