Scott McCloud
McCloud, RISD, March 2007. The Rhode Island School of Design (abbreviated as RISD, pronounced /ˈrɪzdi/ is a Fine arts college located in Providence Rhode Island. March 2007 is the third month of the year It began on a Thursday, and ended 31 days later on a Saturday.
Birth name	Scott McLeod
Born	June 10, 1960 (1960-06-10) (age 47) Boston, Massachusetts
Nationality	American
Area(s)	artist, writer, theorist
Notable works	Zot! Understanding Comics Reinventing Comics Making Comics
Awards	12-time nominee for Eisner, Harvey awards[1]

Scott McCloud (born Scott McLeod on June 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist and theorist on comics as a distinct literary and artistic medium. Events 1190 - Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Sally River while leading an army to Jerusalem Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Zot! is a Comic book created by Scott McCloud in 1984 and published by Eclipse Understanding Comics The Invisible Art is a 215-page Non-fiction Comic book, written and drawn by Scott McCloud and originally published Reinventing Comics How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form (ISBN 0-060-95350-0 is a 2000 book written by Comic book Writer Events 1190 - Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Sally River while leading an army to Jerusalem Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A cartoonist is a person who specializes in drawing Cartoons Traditionally much of this work was and still is humorous and is intended primarily for entertainment purposes

Biography

McCloud was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He created the light-hearted science fiction/superhero comic book series Zot! in 1984, in part as a reaction to the increasingly grim direction that superhero comics were taking in the 1980s. A superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero) is a Fictional character "of unprecedented physical prowess dedicated to acts of derring-do A comic book (often shortened to simply comic and sometimes called a comic paper or comic magazine) is a Magazine or Book of narrative Zot! is a Comic book created by Scott McCloud in 1984 and published by Eclipse Year 1984 ( MCMLXXXIV) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link displays the 1984 Gregorian calendar) The 1980s was the decade spanning from January 1 1980 to December 31 1989. His other print comics include Destroy!! (a deliberately over-the-top, over-sized single-issue comic book, intended as a parody of formulaic superhero fights), the graphic novel The New Adventures of Abraham Lincoln (done with a mixture of computer-generated and manually-drawn digital images), 12 issues writing DC Comics' Superman Adventures, and the three issue limited series Superman: Strength. A DC Comics is an American comic book and related media company Superman Adventures is a DC Comic book series featuring Superman.

He is best known as a comics theorist, following the publication in 1993 of Understanding Comics, a wide-ranging exploration of the definition, history, vocabulary, and methods of the medium of comics, itself done in comics form. Year 1993 ( MCMXCIII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full 1993 Gregorian calendar) Understanding Comics The Invisible Art is a 215-page Non-fiction Comic book, written and drawn by Scott McCloud and originally published He followed in 2000 with Reinventing Comics (also in comics form), in which he outlined twelve "revolutions" that he argued would be keys to the growth and success of comics as a popular and creative medium. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. Reinventing Comics How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form (ISBN 0-060-95350-0 is a 2000 book written by Comic book Writer Finally, in 2006, he released Making Comics. Following publication, he went on a tour with his family that included all 50 U. S. states and parts of Europe. ^[2]

He was one of the earliest promoters of webcomics as a distinct variety of comics, and a vocal supporter of micropayments. Webcomics, online comics, or Internet comics are Comics Published on a Website, often exclusively providing easy access to an Micropayments are means for transferring very small amounts of money in situations where collecting such small amounts of money with the usual Payment systems is impractical ^[3] He was also an advisor 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. Bitpass was an online payment system for digital content and services 25 for each chapter. McCloud maintains an active online presence on his web site where he publishes many of his ongoing experiments with comics produced specifically for the web. Among the techniques he explores is the "infinite canvas" permitted by a web browser, allowing panels to be spatially arranged in ways not possible in the finite, two-dimensional, paged format of a physical book. The infinite canvas is the idea that the size of a digital Comics page is theoretically Infinite, and that online comics are therefore not limited

Creator's Bill of Rights

McCloud was the principal author of the Creator's Bill of Rights, a 1988 document designed to protect the rights of comic book creators and help aid against the exploitation of comics artists and writers by corporate work-for-hire practices. In 1988 a number of Comic book artists and writers began a discussion on a Creator's Bill of Rights. ^[4] The group that adopted the Bill also included artists Kevin Eastman, Dave Sim, and Stephen R. Bissette. For the Boston Celtics assistant see Kevin Eastman (basketball coach Kevin Brooks Eastman (born 1962 is an American comic book David Victor Sim (born May 17 1956 in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian Comic book Writer and Artist, best known as the Stephen R Bissette (also known as Steve Bissette) is an American Comics artist and publisher best known for working with writer Alan Moore ^[5]. The Bill included twelve rights such as "The right to full ownership of what we fully create," and "The right to prompt payment of a fair and equitable share of profits derived from all of our creative work. "^[6]

24-hour comic

In 1990 McCloud coined the idea of a 24-hour comic, a complete 24-page comic created by a single cartoonist in 24 consecutive hours. Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar) A 24-hour comic is a 24-page Comic book written drawn and completed in 24 hours It was a mutual challenge with cartoonist Steve Bissette, intended to compel creative output with a minimum of self-restraining contemplation. ^[7] Thousands of cartoonists have since taken up the challenge. ^[8]

McCloud's non-fiction books

• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (1993, ISBN 0-613-02782-5)
• Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form (2000, ISBN 0-06-095350-0)
• Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels (2006, ISBN 0-06-078094-0)

References

External links

• Scott McCloud official site
• 24 Hour Comics
• Scott McCloud biography on Lambiek Comiclopedia