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The Cartoonists Club, a new graphic novel by Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud for the 1st of April next year, was announced with a print run of 750,000 Well, it seems that's not enough, as Scholastic Graphix, the biggest comic book publisher in the English language, have bumped it up ahead of publication to 800,000 The[...]

But quoting someone a little closer to most comic book readers' habits than Jean Baudrillard, Scott McCloud and his magnum opus, Understanding Comics And chapter seven, the six essential steps of creation. And now, courtesy of Venom Horse. Scott McCloud… …and Venom Horse. Basically, Venom Horse is saying that it is, itself, a shiny new apple[...]

Scholastic, the biggest comic book publisher in the English language, announced the publication of The Cartoonists Club, a new graphic novel by Raina Telgemeier and Scott McCloud, for the 1st of April 2025 The Cartoonists Club intends to teach readers how to create their own comic books and cartoon strips It has a first printing[...]

It is meant to include the artists whose work was used to develop Midjourney's AI art offering. They include comic book creators such as Tim Bradstreet, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Art Spiegelman, Brian Bolland, Bill Sienkiewicz, Bill Watterson, Bill Willingham, Ben Templesmith, Adi Granov, Al Davidson, Alex Toth, Arthur Rackham, Arthur Suydam, Scott McCloud, Ryan North, Mort Drucker,[...]

Jack Kirby, Siya Oum, Bryan K Vaughan, Klaus Janson, Chip Zdarsky, Will Eisner, Phil Jimenezm Mike Deodato, Matt Fraction, Bart Sears, Mike Mayhew, Tony Moore,  Aaron McGruder, Al Williamson, Albert Uderzio, Mobius, Alex Raymonf, Alex Rodd, Alex Toth, Angus McKie, Brian Bolland, Brian Stelfreeze, Bruce Timm, Charls Burns, Chris Ware, Daniel Clowes, Dave Gibbons, Dave[...]

Google wants to explain the concept of Federated Learning, an AI model designed to protect user privacy by keeping personal data on devices rather than on servers, and they've figured out the best way to illustrate a very complex concept: with comics! What's the best way to illustrate complex concepts? Comics! Explore this delightful (yet powerful)[...]

Scott McCloud's panel at Small Press Expo was highly anticipated, but there seemed to be sufficient room for everyone waiting for some words of wisdom about comics. Chatting to the audience beforehand, McCloud asked if anyone had heard the riddle: What do you get when you cross an elephant with a rhino? The answer, which he[...]

That was one of the more chill times we had seeing a creator, and I think that came through in the copy (and definitely the photo). Scott McCloud was one of the best days we had together! We had lunch in Gowanus, near the comic book studio, and then Seth photographed Scott in one of the[...]

By Chris Thompson [audio:http://popculturehound.net/podcast/OiCPodcastEpisode122.mp3] After last week's chat with Descender's Dustin Nguyen, followed by Beast Wagon's Owen Johnson & John Pearson (which you can still listen to here), this time I'm back with Nick Roche (Transformers, Monster Motors, New Warriors) to launch the Irish Invasion exhibition in the Orbital Gallery. Nick & I discuss the burgeoning creative scene[...]

Stay tuned to the end this week if you want details on how to win some free Astro Zombies swag! Books featured in this episode for the week of 2/11/15: Dark Horse Comics: Abe Sapien #20 Boom! Studios: Teen Dog #6 Marvel Comics: Amazing Spider-Man #14 DC Comics: Harley Quinn Valentine's Day Special Image Comics: The Walking Dead #137 Marvel Comics: Star[...]

By Michele Brittany, West Coast Bleeding Cool Correspondent Who says there's nothing free to do in Southern California? Have a look at the array of events that you have to choose from in the month of February! February 10th Understanding Comics author Scott McCloud will be at the Mark Taper Auditorium in Los Angeles, talking with Elvis Mitchell,[...]

That's the sticky situation 25-year-old sculptor David Smith finds himself in, in Scott McCloud's upcoming The Sculptor graphic novel from First Second Books. McCloud is best known in the comics industry from his acclaimed non-fiction books Understanding Comics, Making Comics, and Reinventing Comics, but creating original comics isn't new territory for him He had a successful[...]

By Cameron Hatheway February 3rd marks the release of Scott McCloud's long-awaited graphic novel The Sculptor from First Second Books Best known for his epic creator-owned series Zot! and his contributions to understanding, appreciating, and reinventing the comics medium, McCloud is without a doubt a giant in the industry and has been due for another graphic[...]

The Best American Comics is an annual volume, edited by a different prominent comic book person each year, and published by Houghton Mufflin Harcourt. The 2014 volume is edited by Scott McCloud And here is what you are getting Basically it's a really posh comic book version of Nerd Block Consider this the unboxing video… Jaime Hernandez[...]

It's currently on sale at the convention floor from publisher First Second. So, Scott McCloud started the panel off by explaining that he was rather superfluous, as the focus is intended to be on Gene Luen Yang Yang explained that the only reason he went into comics in the first place was after reading McCloud's seminal[...]

That's right, it's rather a speedy signing as well. SCULPTED Scott McCloud returns to comic book fiction The New York Times reports, The cartoonist Scott McCloud, who wrote about what makes comic books tick in "Understanding Comics" and speculated about their future in "Reinventing Comics," is returning to fiction for his next project, "The Sculptor," a graphic novel[...]

In the early issues of Promethea, Williams is slowly pushing boundaries and reimagining how a comic book should with innovative panel layouts and a great use of the gutter (what Scott McCloud calls the "space between borders" or panels) I like Promethea as a pick for this list because it scratches the surface of how[...]

What about the reader? After all, much of the events if a comic, as Scott McCloud pointed out, occur in the reader's mind, between the gutters, filling in the space The reader is doing as much creating the experience as the creators of the comic They should get a cut of the exploitation of that! Bear with[...]

Until that day, read on. Scott McCloud | Journal » Archive » PayPal Launches Micropayments, Uses Words like "Frictionless," Pleases Cartoonist THIS is so close, in almost every respect, to what we were asking for over a decade ago, it's almost eerie They're even using the same language to describe it I've got a graphic novel[...]