![]() ![]() His comic book Destroy!! (1986) was an all-out parody of the superhero comic genre. Which appeared in serial form in the mid- and late 1980s, was collected in graphic novels in the mid-1990s, and was reborn in an online version in 2000, offered a nostalgic take on a superhero romance and allowed McCloud to experiment with the ideas he developed in his theoretical works. ![]() More than just a comics theorist, McCloud has also created several innovative comics stories of his own over the years. It's a matter of dignity! We should aspire to a higher place in popular culture.…" " Comics' place in society is worth fighting for. McCloud's work stirred controversy with his piercing criticisms of the existing comics industry and his suggestion that the future of comics was on the Internet. ![]() His two key works, Understanding Comics (1993) and Reinventing Comics (2000), advanced the idea that comics are a serious form of storytelling and ignited many discussions throughout the comics community about how comics and the comics industry work. Scott McCloud-author of two works that have dissected the ways that comics and the comics industry work-has been called a "cartoonist's cartoonist" and "comic's resident futurist." As one of the few people ever to make a systematic study of the ways that comics tell stories, McCloud is widely considered to be the leading intellectual working in comics in the 1990s and 2000s. American comics theorist, artist, illustrator ![]()
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