Scott McCloud Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
-
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.
-
I love stand-up comics, particularly those who have embraced podcasting.
-
My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.
-
Kid ... Comics will break your heart.
-
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.
-
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.
-
I appropriate what is already mine, for once a thing is published it becomes 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.
-
My love of comics did start with 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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Space does for comics what time does for 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.
-
Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe.
-
I never became a writer for the money. I am a poet first. Even getting published is a miracle for poets.
-
It was harder to break into comics than it was to become a singer in a rock band.
-
A zombie apocalypse isn't the most jovial situation.
-
When I'm in the U.K. – and I'm here more than people would think – I tend to keep a very low profile.
-
It's important to have as much fun as possible while we're here. It balances out the times when the minefield of life explodes.
-
Power comes and goes. It can vanish in the twinkling of an eye, like smoke dissolving in the air.
-
It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year.
