Scott McCloud Quotations

We track it and that's our new peak, ... We hadn't had anything close to (the previous mark) in the last five years." ()

Hollywood has a love affair with heroes' stories right now. It depends on people being motivated to make the movies, because first and foremost they have to make a good movie." ()

We're watching it and tracking it with our sister companies to plan anything." ()

Typically, you're going to set your peak in August," ()

We're down to 60 (customers without power) right now." ()

Sometimes, that can knock some old tree over that's been sitting all summer," ()

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." ()

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." ()

This is not a scare tactic -- it's realistic. This is a devastating storm." ()

This is part of the mutual assistance program. Companies provide assistance in times of emergencies." ()

They've all had a chance to rest and be in their home base." ()

A car hit a pole. I believe it was on Gregg Street. It affected 1,500 customers." ()

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," ()

I had a lot of ideas on how comics worked and pretty early on I had this idea that it would be fun to explain them in comics form.

If you think about it, for any kind of content on the web, the natural price per unit of these things should be under a dollar.

Comics offers tremendous resources to all writers and artists: faithfulness, control, a chance to be heard far and wide without fear of compromise." ()

Comics is a powerful idea, but an idea that's been squandered, ignored and misunderstood for generations,

You've got to have extreme temperatures over your entire service area (for peak demand to occur). You've got to keep it at 100 or above for several days." ()

My first influences were superhero artists.

Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.

When you're free of editorial control, you owe it to yourself to obtain feedback from friends and readers. Some take those criticisms to heart and incorporate it into their work, and some ignore them.

Form and content must never apologize for each other.

To kill a man between panels is to condemn him to a thousand deaths.

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.

Space does for comics what time does for film!

By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.

My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous.

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

It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.

I've always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history.

And what better way to reinvent the form than to toss virtually 99% of everything that's been done with it and start with a brand-new canvas, reinvent it from the ground up? Digital comics gave me the opportunity to do that, and producing things digitally gave me the opportunity to do that.

I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.

All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.

A medium is a bridge between two minds.

My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential.

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.

Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe.

There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future.

If you just write the kinds of stories you think others will want to read, you'll be competing with cartoonists who are far more enthusiastic for that kind of comic than you are, and they'll kick your ass every time.

I wouldn't necessarily have been making books about how to make comics if I'd really felt I knew how to make comics.

If a comic comes out on the scene and it's really knock-out brilliant, the community is pretty good about getting the word about good newcomers.

Nobody knows what will work until they try it. Some of comics' biggest success stories in recent years have explored subjects that no one was writing about at the time - stories no one had any reason to think would succeed. My advice? Write what you want to read. You'll have more fun doing it - and if all else fails, you'll always have at least one loyal reader.

The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas.

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.

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.

Creator and reader are partners in the invisible creating something out of nothing, time and time again.

Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.

Learn from everyone. Follow no one. Watch for patterns. Work like hell.