1. Scott McCloud became established as a comics creator in the 1980s as an independent superhero cartoonist and advocate for creator's rights.
12 Facts About Scott McCloud
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Scott McCloud rose to prominence in the industry beginning in the 1990s for his non-fiction works about the medium; he has advocated for 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 an illustration program at Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York 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 helping 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 of all 50 US states and parts of Europe.
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In November 2022, Scott McCloud was 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 which provided an online micropayment system.
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Scott McCloud helped launch it with the publication of The Right Number, an online graphic novella priced at a quarter 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:.