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Scott McCloud

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Scott McCloud (born Scott McLeod) is an American cartoonist and theorist on comics as a distinct literary and artistic medium.

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New for Spring: The Cartoonists Club!

Coming April 1st, 2025, Raina Telgemeier and I are proud to finally release our new middle-grade graphic novel from Scholastic: The Cartoonists Club!

Makayla is bursting with ideas but doesn’t know how to make them into a story. Howard loves to draw, but he struggles to come up with ideas and his dad thinks comics are a waste of time. Lynda constantly draws in her sketchbook but keeps focusing

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Average rating: 4.01 · 179,568 ratings · 7,653 reviews · 125 distinct works • Similar authors

	Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 130,804 ratings — published 1993 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Sculptor really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18,412 ratings — published 2015 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels 4.34 avg rating — 9,719 ratings — published 2006 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reinventing Comics: The Evolution of an Art Form 3.90 avg rating — 3,814 ratings — published 2000 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zot!: The Complete Black-and-White Collection: 1987-1991 4.07 avg rating — 1,609 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best American Comics 2014 (The Best American Series ®) by Scott McCloud (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Bill Kartalopoulos (Editor), Jaime Hernández 3.75 avg rating — 605 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Superman: Adventures of the Man of Steel by Scott McCloud (Goodreads Author), Paul Dini, Rick Burchett (Illustrator) 4.18 avg rating — 480 ratings — published 1998 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Zot! 4.01 avg rating — 422 ratings — published 1990 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	24 Hour Comics by Scott McCloud (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author), Al Davison (Artist) 3.71 avg rating — 333 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln 3.92 avg rating — 248 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Comic Books (3 books)
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Grandes autores de Superman: Scott McCloud (2 books)
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“Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.”
― Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

tags: art, comics, creativity, human-activity, instincts, reproduction, sequential-art, survival

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“...when you look at a photo or realistic drawing of a face, you see it as the face of another . But when you enter the world of the cartoon , you see yourself.”
― Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

tags: art, artists, character-description, character-design, characters, comics

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“By stripping down an image to its essential "meaning", an artist can amplify that meaning in a way that realistic art can't.”
― Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

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