Scott McCloud Quotes

I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.

Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.

What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.

I'm always interested in using comics in different ways.

When I was writing songs, I always thought I'd make more of a career out of the drawings, the comics even more than the music.

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

I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job.

I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder.

Who doesn't want to draw Batman or Superman? Everyone would like to be able to draw them. I've been really lucky when it comes to the characters that I get to illustrate.

My first influences were superhero artists.

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.

I've done illustration on the side. But other than that, comics have been my main things.

Cartooning is an honorable thing.

For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.

As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, 'Hey, I'd like to draw manga - I'd like to be a manga author!'

But to me what seems to be missing in a lot of portfolios is Cartooning.

Graphic novels are such a visually creative world - it's really interesting what they can do in one sketch. Now I'm hooked.

I wanted to be a cartoonist when I was young.

My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing.

Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.

I am quite convinced now... that the actual training of drawing cartoons - which is, of course, my style - led to my producing Spot. Cartoons must be very simple and have as few words as possible, and so, too, must the 'Spot' books.

But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC so there was that period of my life of trying to learn how to draw and tell stories in a proper fashion.

I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.

When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.