72 Quotes by Scott McCloud

In comics at its best, words and pictures are like partners in a dancer and each one takes turns leading.

The panel acts as a sort of general indicator that time or space is being divided. The durations of that time and the dimensions of that space are defined more by contents of the panel than by the panel itself.

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.

Think of your face as a mask. That’s what it is, after all. A mask. Facing outward. Worn from the day you were born. Slave to your every mental command. Seen by everyone you meet. But never by you. Open its eyes now. Just think it. The mask will obey.

I’ve always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history.

The natural world creates great beauty every day, yet the only rules of composition it follows are those of function and chance.

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

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.

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