Quotes from Scott McCloud

Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe.

My first influences were superhero artists.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Space does for comics what time does for film!

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.