In a scathing review, noted comic artist Gary Groth banished you to "McCloud Cuckoo-Land." What prompted such controversy? Your second book, Reinventing Comics, was very controversial. It's about how we use pictures, perspective, scale, style and facial expression to tell stories, and how visual narrative actually works. I have returned to my concern with how comics work on a micro level. In Making Comics, you return to the territory that you pursued with Understanding Comics. McCloud, his wife, Ivy, and their tween-ageĭaughters, Winter and Sky, are three months into a year in which they'll visit all 50 United States to promote his new book, Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels. Understanding Comics prompted Sin City creator Frank Miller to call McCloud "just about the smartest guy in comics." Ten years later he published Understanding Comics, a breakthrough handbook that was both a how-to manual and a philosophical work. He created and sold his first comic, Zot!, for Eclipse Comics in 1983. While few amateur enthusiasts get to live out their dream, after graduating from college McCloud started work in the DC Comics Production Department. Scott McCloud decided to become a comic artist at age 15.
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