Scott McCloud Quotes

I had a lot of ideas on how comics worked and pretty early on I had this idea that it would be fun to explain them in comics form.

I grew up really into comic books, and I actually thought I was going to be a comic-book artist. That was my ambition before I realized I couldn't keep characters looking the same from panel to panel.

I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason and one reason only: I love comics. I love the form, the structure, the storytelling process, I love everything about it.

I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form.

I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have a good, strong story teller, they can be as affecting as any character in literature. Period.

There are great comic books, these great geniuses that manage to tell you a story in one frame, and that became the thing that opened my eyes.

I read comics because of the art.

I knew I wanted to do comics, but I wasn't sure what they were about or what I wanted them to be about.

I just really respond to comics. I find it a really exciting medium.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the dynamic you find in comics.

I love comics and have since I was a kid. That is what gave me the idea to create my own.

Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can't do, and vice versa.

Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith in the artists to allow them to do their job.

To be honest, writing comics is a dream come true - the form is unparalleled and is home to some of the most original and innovative storytelling around.

One of the wonderful things that I've always loved as an art student, what I always loved about comics, was that they are interpreted differently by different graphic artists all the time, so now film is doing that thanks to Marvel Studios.

I'm always a little nervous when someone comes from other media into writing comics. It's a unique storytelling form, and it requires both talent and respect.

The most impactful comics that I've read are the ones where the artists swung for the bleachers and tried to immerse you in their world.

I love writing novels, but there is something deeply invigorating about the comic-book medium.

Being able to work in comics at all - I know I came into it from a different medium, but I'd like to stay here. It's not like a weird touristy thing for me.

Comics are actually a lot more difficult to read than I thought they would be. After my second 'Deadpool' comic, I kind of gave up.

I love writing comics too much.

I would definitely, definitely love to do more comic work. I think, creatively, there's something that's differently rewarding about it than the rewards of filmmaking.

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

I've been trying to make this argument that digital comics and print comics are both art, but there are subtle differences.