Scott McCloud Quotes

It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year.

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• I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Business
  • Proud
  • Individual

• The comics I read as a kid were much more influenced by TV and movies. Encountering superheroes as an adult without that kind of childhood sentimentality, it just doesn't allow you, or in my case at least, it wouldn't let me take the characters seriously.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Kid
  • Seriously
  • Comics

• I love stand-up comics, particularly those who have embraced podcasting.

  

  Gail Carriger
  • Comics
  • Particularly
  • Embraced

• My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.

  

  Aristotle
  • Published
  • Lectures
  • Intelligible

• Kid ... Comics will break your heart.

  

  Jack Kirby
  • Heart
  • Kid
  • Comics

• My father brought me my first stack of comics, when I was seven years old and in the hospital. I was not a well child. And that's where my love for comics began.

  

  Len Wein
  • Father
  • Comics
  • Hospital

• Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Up
  • Career
  • Wonder

• I appropriate what is already mine, for once a thing is published it becomes public property.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Public
  • Property

• It was cool to me, as a fan of the comics, to see some of the villains that end up finding them there, and the way that they abuse Coulson before the superheroes come. I'm always, in the movies or in the animated series, getting into trouble that a superhero has to bail me out of.

  

  Clark Gregg
  • Up
  • Cool
  • Movies

• My love of comics did start with anime.

  

  Charles Richards
  • Love
  • Comics
  • Anime

• I do get the comics online I guess but it's such a pain. I'd rather just get them in the paper and read them.

  

  Drew Carey
  • Pain
  • Read
  • Comics

• For Scripture is the school of the Holy Spirit, in which, as nothing is omitted that is both necessary and useful to know, so nothing is taught but what is expedient to know. Therefore we must guard against depriving believers of anything disclosed about predestination in Scripture, lest we seem either wickedly to defraud them of the blessing of their God or to accuse and scoff at the Holy Spirit for having published what it is in any way profitable to suppress.

  

  John Calvin
  • School
  • Blessing
  • Scripture

• I never think there's any competition between films. I root for everybody's films. I especially have a fond place in my heart for graphic novels and comics.

  

  Bruce Willis
  • Heart
  • Never
  • Competition

• Space does for comics what time does for film!

  

  Scott McCloud
  • Time
  • Space
  • Film

• The 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 McCloud
  • Customers
  • Nonsense
  • Comics

• Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe.

  

  Scott McCloud
  • Scene
  • Comics

• I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Money
  • Writer
  • Poet

• It was harder to break into comics than it was to become a singer in a rock band.

  

  Gerard Way My Chemical Romance
  • Break
  • Become
  • Singer

• That's the type of thing you need to keep in mind when drawing comics. The storytelling. Consider the action and the space available to you, that's what will make it a great comics page. Once you've figured that out, you can always find/make the reference to support your storytelling decisions. So by all means, study film, but as with any reference, the results are better when they inform the craft and not dictate it.

  

  Declan Shalvey
  • Drawing
  • Decisions
  • Storytelling

• Ever, as before, does Madness remain a mysterious-terrific, altogether infernal boiling-up of the Nether Chaotic Deep, through this fair-painted Vision of Creation, which swims thereon, which we name the Real.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Name
  • Madness
  • Vision Of Creation

• I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.

  

  Murray Walker
  • Mistake
  • Humor
  • Turns

• Feature film can have a major role in explaining ideas and describing peoples' lives and their struggles.

  

  Steve Bannon
  • Ideas
  • Film
  • Struggles

• It was a pretty good pitch for him. I just wanted to make contact there, and things happen, you know. I was just trying to continue the rally.

  

  Bobby Abreu
  • Contact
  • Pitch
  • Rally

• It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year.

  

  Scott McCloud
  • Comics
  • Published