Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again.
Scott McCloudI don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.
Scott McCloudThe 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.
Scott McCloudThe notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.
Scott McCloudComic 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