72 Quotes by Scott McCloud

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.

Form and content must never apologize for each other.

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

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.

Space does for comics what time does for film!

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

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.

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

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