Top 37 Scott McCloud Quotes
#2. I'm back, boys and girls! back from the pink padded couch palace!
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#3. The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.
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#4. Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.
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#5. All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.
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#6. 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.
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#7. It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year.
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#8. 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.
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#9. 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.
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#10. 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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#11. I wouldn't necessarily have been making books about how to make comics if I'd really felt I knew how to make comics.
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#12. 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.
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#14. To be a "thing" that thinks and moves and wants ... that's MIRACULOUS.
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#15. 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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#16. The natural world creates great beauty every day, yet the only rules of composition it follows are those of function and chance.
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#17. 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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#18. By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.
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#19. Form and content must never apologize for each other.
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#20. 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.
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#22. Our perception of "reality" is an act of faith based on mere fragments.
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#23. I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.
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#24. 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.
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#25. 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.
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#26. 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.
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#27. 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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#28. 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.
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#29. Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again.
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#30. 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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#31. Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe.
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#32. 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.
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#33. To kill a man between panels is to condemn him to a thousand deaths.
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#34. The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas.
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#35. By stripping down an image to its essential "meaning", an artist can amplify that meaning in a way that realistic art can't.
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#36. 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.
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#37. It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.
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