Scott McCloud is an American cartoonist and theorist on comics as a distinct literary and artistic medium.
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“Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.”
Scott McCloud
“Comics offers tremendous resources to all writers and artists: faithfulness, control, a chance to be heard far and wide without fear of compromise.”
“Comics is a powerful idea, but an idea that's been squandered, ignored and misunderstood for generations. No art form has lived in a smaller box than comics for the last hundred years. It's time for comics to finally grow up and find the art beneath the craft.”
“[The digital revolution, he argued, would bring comics closer to their roots: cave paintings. Yes, cave paintings.] The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas.”
“Comics is a powerful idea, but an idea that's been squandered, ignored and misunderstood for generations,”
“This is not a scare tactic -- it's realistic. This is a devastating storm.”
“We're down to 60 (customers without power) right now.”
“We track it and that's our new peak, ... We hadn't had anything close to (the previous mark) in the last five years.”
“Typically, you're going to set your peak in August,”
“Sometimes, that can knock some old tree over that's been sitting all summer,”