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 McCloudThere'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 McCloudAnd 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.
Scott McCloudArt, as I see it, is any human activity which doesnโt grow out of either of our speciesโ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.
Scott McCloudI don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.
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.
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