Scott McCloud

Scott McCloud is American author of Cartoon and an essay writer. Born the June 10th 1960, with Boston. His/her father was, according to his official biography, an inventive blind man of rockets. Whereas it has 16 years his friend Kurt Busiek convinces it that the comics are not all to throw and it decides to make his trade of it.

Scott McCloud is known for its test invisible Art which explains the mechanism of the cartoon in cartoon, a first. Realized with talent and relevance, although he does not add anything new to the semiological theories of years 70-80, the work brought a puff of fresh air in the field of the theory as cartoons proving in the passing that the cartoon is not limited and is an art with whole share.

After this success, Scott McCloud was attacked in the future with Reinventing comics , a work considered by some as definitely less successful because fishing by overflow of ambitions and dogmatism, affirming to regulate all at the same time the problems of sales of cartoon in the United States and those of the creativity in the world of the video game, by observations and receipts considered like not being at all avant-gardists.

Scott McCloud is in addition author of visible experimental cartoons on her Internet site, or cartoons not diffused in France such as The New Adventures off Abraham Lincoln and Zot!

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