Scott mccloud comics
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International breastfeeding symbol, designed by cartoonist Matt Daigle. Photo taken at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Yeah, yeah, nobody reads site blogs anymore, but I have a lot to talk about—more than can fit in a tweet—and this seemed as good a place as any to put it all into words…
I’m still working feverishly on my massive book about visual communication. The second draft of my (neurotically-tight) layouts ran 571 pages, and I’m determined, as I plow through my third—and hopefully final—draft, to make it substantially shorter and less rambling. Wish me luck!
The book has taken me years so far, but I sincerely believe it’ll be worth it. It’s a preposterously ambitious full color project covering the evolution and biology of vision; principles of visual perception; demonstrations of how visual elements behave in the mind’s eye; best practices for clarity, explanation, and effective rhetoric; and some personal reflections on our family’s experiences with blindness.
Oh, and I’m also working on a big secret project we hope to announce in the coming months!
I still haven’
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Scott McCloud
COMIC ARTIST
1960 - Today
Scott McCloud
Scott McCloud (born Scott McLeod; June 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist and comics theorist. His non-fiction books about comics, Understanding Comics (1993), Reinventing Comics (2000), and Making Comics (2006), are made in comic form. He became established as a comics creator in the 1980s as an independent superhero cartoonist and advocate for creator's rights. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Scott McCloud has received more than 328,444 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Scott McCloud is the 180th most popular comic artist (down from 162nd in 2019), the 11,809th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,663rd in 2019) and the 46th most popular American Comic Artist.
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Scott McCloud
American cartoonist (born 1960)
For other people with the same name, see Scott McLeod.
Scott McCloud (born Scott McLeod; June 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist and comics theorist. His non-fiction books about comics, Understanding Comics (1993), Reinventing Comics (2000), and Making Comics (2006), are made in comic form.
He became established as a comics creator in the 1980s as an independent superhero cartoonist and advocate for creator's rights. He rose to prominence in the industry beginning in the 1990s for his non-fiction works about the medium; he has advocated for the use of new technology in the creation and distribution of comics.
Early life
McCloud was born in 1960[1] in Boston[2] the youngest child of Willard Wise (a blind inventor and engineer)[3] and Patricia Beatrice McLeod.[4] He grew up mostly in Lexington, Massachusetts.[5] He decided he wanted to be a comics artist in 1975, during his junior year in high school.[5]
He attended an illustration program at Syracu
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