Scott McCloud
Scott McCloud
Scott McCloudis an American cartoonist and comics theorist. He is best known for his non-fiction books about comics, Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, and Making Comics...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth10 June 1960
CityBoston, MA
CountryUnited States of America
book apologizing comic
Form and content must never apologize for each other.
book ideas giving
The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they didn't get - and they left.
book ifs has-beens
I wouldn't necessarily have been making books about how to make comics if I'd really felt I knew how to make comics.
latin book pigs
As I see it, mainstream comics now speak only to the hardcore few who stayed; conversing in a weird, garbled, visual pig latin only they can understand - rendering the term 'mainstream' a hollow joke - while the true mainstream, the other 99.9% of the populace, find enjoyment elsewhere.
book average dollars
Comic book readers are just as abandoned by the corporate system as the creators, despite the importance supposedly given their hard-earned dollars. The average comics shop can offer only a tiny fraction of an industrywide selection that is itself extremely limited in scope. And even when readers know exactly what they want, the search can be maddeningly futile.
across affected customers ice power snow three
Right now, we only have three customers without power and that's across three states. So we're not being affected by snow or ice at all." ()
knock sitting tree
Sometimes, that can knock some old tree over that's been sitting all summer," ()
companies plan sister tracking watching
We're watching it and tracking it with our sister companies to plan anything." ()
peak
Typically, you're going to set your peak in August," ()
east prepare sight time
It's going to get bad. It's not a pretty sight for East Texas. It's time for SWEPCO to prepare for its own customers. We are already mobilizing our troops," ()
We're down to 60 (customers without power) right now." ()
chance home rest
They've all had a chance to rest and be in their home base." ()
affected believe car hit
A car hit a pole. I believe it was on Gregg Street. It affected 1,500 customers." ()
benefit check contribute customers month opportunity
That (System Benefit Fund) was set up in the deregulated market. Every month you have the opportunity to check that box. There are about 10,000 customers who contribute to that fund, and we contribute to it in the summer." ()