Scott McCloud is best known for his non-fiction books about comics: Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, and Making Comics, all of which use the medium of comics.
12 Facts About Scott McCloud
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Scott McCloud established himself as a comics creator in the 1980s as an independent superhero cartoonist and advocate for creator's rights.
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Scott McCloud rose to prominence in the industry beginning in the 1990s for his non-fiction works about the medium, and has advocated the use of new technology in the creation and distribution of comics.
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Scott McCloud decided he wanted to be a comics artist in 1975, during his junior year in high school.
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Scott McCloud attended Syracuse University's Illustration program and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1982.
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Scott McCloud was the principal author of the Creator's Bill of Rights, a 1988 document with the stated aim of protecting the rights of comic book creators and help aid against the exploitation of comic artists and writers by corporate work-for-hire practices.
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In 1990, Scott McCloud coined the idea of a 24-hour comic: a complete 24-page comic created by a single cartoonist in 24 consecutive hours.
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In 2000, Scott McCloud published Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form, in which he outlined twelve "revolutions" taking place, that he argued would be keys to the growth and success of comics as a popular and creative medium.
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Scott McCloud returned to focus on the medium itself in 2006 with Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga, and Graphic Novels, an instructional guide to the process of producing comics, which he followed with a promotional lecture tour with his family of all 50 US states and parts of Europe.
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Scott McCloud is currently working on a third draft of layouts for an upcoming book on visual communication.
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Scott McCloud was an adviser to BitPass, a company that provided an online micropayment system, which he helped launch with the publication of The Right Number, an online graphic novella priced at US$0.25 for each chapter.
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Various fonts used in Scott McCloud's comics have been recreated digitally, and have been released by Comicraft:.