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Famous Quotes By Scott McCloud

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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 future. — Scott McCloud

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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. — Scott McCloud

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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. — Scott McCloud

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

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

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Space does for comics what time does for film! — Scott McCloud

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To kill a man between panels is to condemn him to a thousand deaths. — Scott McCloud

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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. — Scott McCloud

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The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas. — Scott McCloud

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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. — Scott McCloud

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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. — Scott McCloud

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The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they didn't get - and they left. — Scott McCloud

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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. — Scott McCloud

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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

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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 writing about at the time - stories no one had any reason to think would succeed. My advice? Write what you want to read. You'll have more fun doing it - and if all else fails, you'll always have at least one loyal reader. — Scott McCloud

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

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Comic book readers are just as abandoned by the corporate system as the creators, despite the importance supposedly given their hard-earned dollars. The average comics shop can offer only a tiny fraction of an industrywide selection that is itself extremely limited in scope. And even when readers know exactly what they want, the search can be maddeningly futile. — Scott McCloud

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As I see it, mainstream comics now speak only to the hardcore few who stayed; conversing in a weird, garbled, visual pig latin only they can understand - rendering the term 'mainstream' a hollow joke - while the true mainstream, the other 99.9% of the populace, find enjoyment elsewhere. — Scott McCloud

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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. — Scott McCloud

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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. — Scott McCloud

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Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again. — Scott McCloud

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Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell. — Scott McCloud

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

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By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning. — Scott McCloud

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My first influences were superhero artists. — Scott McCloud

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When you look at a photo or realistic drawing of a face, you see it as the face of another . But when you enter the world of the cartoon , you see yourself. — Scott McCloud

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

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Comics offers tremendous resources to all writers and artists:faithfulness, control, a chance to be heard far and wide without fear of compromise ... it offers range and versatility with all the potential imagery of film and painting plus the intimacy of the written word. And all that's needed is the desire to be heard
the will to learn
and the ability to see. — Scott McCloud

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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 for that kind of comic than you are, and they'll kick your ass every time. — Scott McCloud

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Our perception of "reality" is an act of faith based on mere fragments. — Scott McCloud

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I wouldn't necessarily have been making books about how to make comics if I'd really felt I knew how to make comics. — Scott McCloud

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I may have drawn an axe being raised in this example, but I'm not the one who let it drop or decided how hard the blow, or who screamed, or why. That, dear reader, was your special crime. Each of you was committing it in your own style. — Scott McCloud

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To be a "thing" that thinks and moves and wants ... that's MIRACULOUS. — Scott McCloud

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A medium is a bridge between two minds. — Scott McCloud

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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. — Scott McCloud

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By stripping down an image to its essential "meaning", an artist can amplify that meaning in a way that realistic art can't. — Scott McCloud

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The natural world creates great beauty every day, yet the only rules of composition it follows are those of function and chance. — Scott McCloud

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I'm back, boys and girls! back from the pink padded couch palace! — Scott McCloud

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

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So this is it. This is the Great Escape.
Is it wrong for us to want this? I keep thinking, if there are so many worlds, who decided which one to put us on? No one asked us what we wanted. Don't we have the right to look for something more?
We'll be back; we know we can't stay away forever.
But just for a while ... just for a while. — Scott McCloud

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Form and content must never apologize for each other. — Scott McCloud