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4 unusual facts about Scott McCloud


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Scott McCloud originally came up with the challenge for himself and Stephen R. Bissette as a creative exercise.

Daniel Merlin Goodbrey

Understanding Comics creator Scott McCloud has used the Tarquin engine for the creation of some of his comics.

Tartu Art School

The patron of the event was a TAS art teacher Peeter Krosmann, however, the idea originated from the American cartoonist Scott McCloud.

Visual literacy

The graphic novel Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud discusses the history of narrative in visual media.


Architectures of Possibility: After Innovative Writing

In addition, it provides more than 40 interviews with such innovative authors as Robert Coover, Lydia Davis, Brian Evenson, Shelley Jackson, Ben Marcus, Carole Maso, and Scott McCloud.

David Galenson

Comics theorist Scott McCloud seems to have anticipated some aspects of Galenson's theory in his 1993 book Understanding Comics.

Gianfranco Goria

He is the editor of the Italian editions of important essays about comic art by Scott McCloud, Will Eisner and Benoit Peeters.

In the Night Kitchen

The book may be defined as a comic story, at least if one uses the definition of comics proposed in Scott McCloud's acclaimed Understanding Comics — the storytelling is mainly pictorial (albeit clarified by captions) and the images mainly sequential, and speech balloons are used throughout the entire book.

The Cartoonist

Fellow cartoonists Scott McCloud, Colleen Doran, Harvey Pekar, Paul Pope and Terry Moore, as well as friends, associates, experts and Jeff himself, share their stories of this worldwide phenomenon that began in small comics shops and is now found in bookstores, schools, libraries and the homes of millions of adults and children in 25 countries.


see also

In a Bar, Under the Sea

The album was produced by Eric Drew Feldman (who was keyboard and bass player for Captain Beefheart in the late seventies and early eighties) and welcomes guests such as Scott McCloud from Girls Against Boys (on Fell Off the Floor, Man), Dana Colley from Morphine (on Supermarketsong) and Bart Maris from X-Legged Sally (on Nine Threads).