Scott McCloud Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

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

Space does for comics what time does for film!

Form and content must never apologize for each other.

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.

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

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.

A medium is a bridge between two minds.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe.

My first influences were superhero artists.

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

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.

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

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

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