Scott McCloud Quotes

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

There's tons of people doing awesome things with comics online - I'm just one dude!

I like collecting comics, I like buying comics, I like looking at comics, but I also read comics on digital readers, so any way people read comics is fine with me. Digital is just helping people who might not necessarily have access to comics help them; that's great.

It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year.

I'll still do print comics; as long as there's a market, I'll still be there. I just have a hard time believing that's the future.

For me personally, I get to be a cartoonist, because my comic would never survive in print. Maybe one in 100 people would like it, but online, I can gather that one percent all in one place.

The great thing about online comics is that this happens naturally, even if you don't advertise.

The comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.

I feel like there are comic book artists who are comic book artists, and then there's comic book artists who are cartoonists.

Print and digital comics will always coexist.

I do not read newspaper comics unless they happen to be out when I visit my parents, but I follow several online comics, which I check every morning while I drink my coffee and wake up for the day.

Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.

Obviously, I love superheroes; I love comic book characters, but I... I guess I've had a lifelong affection for comics, and while I love the characters so much, I also love the medium.

When I started out in the eighties, the idea of creating serious comics for adults was pretty laughable to most folks, and for the longest time it was hard to even explain what alternative comics or graphic novels were. Nobody seemed to understand or care. Not so, any longer.

I keep up with James Kochalka's online strip, and if I see a link somewhere or someone tells me about something, I'll look at it, but I don't usually keep up with any sites other than the 'American Elf.' I always have this feeling that there's not enough space in the screen, like everything's always getting cut off.

I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form - in this medium - and learn to give it your support because the more you support it, the better the material will be as it comes out.

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

I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.

My father spent his entire early career as an illustrator for comic books: EC Comics like 'Tales from the Crypt' and 'Creepshow,' then moving on to such magazines as 'Mad' and 'Weird Science.'

I believe monthly comics and the extended miniseries are the true hallmarks of comic art and storytelling.

Some comics are made to be displayed digitally, and it doesn't degrade them.

Being online works really well for any creative work, but especially comics.

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

I think when I first sold digital comics it was sort of on a whim.

Comic books have gone mainstream. The audience is there.