Quotes by Scott McCloud

Scott McCloud

A medium is a bridge between two minds.

Bridges

Mind

Two

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

Always Trying

Careers

Trying

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.

Done

Opportunity

Way

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.

Art

Survival

Two

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.

Book

Latin

Pigs

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

Artist

Essentials

Stripping

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.

Average

Book

Dollars

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

Creating

Invisible

Partners

Form and content must never apologize for each other.

Apologizing

Book

Comic

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

Has Beens

Nonfiction

Thinking

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Always Trying

Apologizing

Approach

Art

Artist

Average

Bigger

Bigs

Book

Bridges

Brilliant

Canvas

Careers

Comic

Communication

Community

Creating

Criticism

Dad

Difficult

Doe

Dollars

Done

Drawing

Essentials

Explaining

Feedback

Felt

Film

Firsts

Fun

Giving

Has Beens

Heart

Hell

Hood

Ideas

Infinite

Invisible

Kind

Latin

Lifetime

Looks

Men

Mind

Nonfiction

Opportunity

Partners

Path

Patterns

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Quotes by Scott McCloud

Scott McCloud

A medium is a bridge between two minds.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Form and content must never apologize for each other.

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

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