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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.

- Scott McCloud

Mind, Which, Dad, Frivolous

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

- Scott McCloud

Think, Been, Exploited, Nonfiction

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

- Scott McCloud

Think, Always, I Think, Inventor

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

- Scott McCloud

Always, Been, Very, Gaze

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.

- Scott McCloud

Big, Very, Big Part, Toss

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.

- Scott McCloud

Reinvent, Been, Comics, Toss

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.

- Scott McCloud

Pretty, Brilliant, Newcomers

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

- Scott McCloud

Very, Still, Which, Forms

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

- Scott McCloud

Familiar, Works, Fairly, Explaining

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.

- Scott McCloud

Think, Kind, Natural, Per

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.

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Some, Editorial, Obtain, Readers

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

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Take, Read, Would, Published

My first influences were superhero artists.

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Superhero, Artists, Were, Influences

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

- Scott McCloud

Through, Reinvent, Always, Comics

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

- Scott McCloud

Career, Discovered, Actually, Comics

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.

- Scott McCloud

Pretty, Idea, Explain, Comics

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