By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning. Scott McCloud More Quotes by Scott McCloud More Quotes From Scott McCloud Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell. Scott McCloud patternshellwatches Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again. Scott McCloud invisiblecreatingpartners 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 communicationvoicetoday 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 writingfunthinking 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 survivaltwoart I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be. Scott McCloud nonfictionhas-beensthinking To kill a man between panels is to condemn him to a thousand deaths. Scott McCloud thousandmen A medium is a bridge between two minds. Scott McCloud bridgesmindtwo Form and content must never apologize for each other. Scott McCloud apologizingcomicbook Space does for comics what time does for film! Scott McCloud filmspacedoe 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 feedbackcriticismheart The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas. Scott McCloud canvasinfinitepath 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 latinpigsbook 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 dollarsaveragebook Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe. Scott McCloud biggerscene My first influences were superhero artists. Scott McCloud superheroartistfirsts 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 storieswritingthinking 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 tossbigswant The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me. Scott McCloud hoodterritoryexplaining 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 dadtechnologymind
