Scott McCloud

Scott McCloud is an American cartoonist and comics theorist best known for Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, and Making Comics.

Understanding Comics: A 1993 graphic book by Scott McCloud that explains comics through comics and analyzes their form. This book established McCloud’s best-known framework for understanding how comics communicate.
Making Comics: A 2006 instructional book by Scott McCloud about creating comics, from storytelling to drawing. McCloud applies his theories to concrete choices in comic creation.
Will Eisner: An American cartoonist and writer whose work and teaching helped establish comics as a serious art form. Eisner’s writing on sequential art preceded and influenced McCloud’s theoretical project.
The System of Comics: A 1999 book by Thierry Groensteen that develops a structural theory of comics. Groensteen offers a more technical account of comics structure than McCloud’s accessible synthesis.
Sequential Art: Art that arranges images in sequence to convey information or tell a story. McCloud uses this broad definition to explain what comics are.
Reinventing Comics: A 2000 book by Scott McCloud about digital comics, online distribution, and the comics industry. It extends his account of the medium into technology and publishing.
Art Spiegelman: An American cartoonist best known for the graphic memoir Maus. Spiegelman’s work demonstrates the artistic and literary range McCloud analyzes.
Comics and Sequential Art: A book by Will Eisner explaining comics storytelling and the form’s visual conventions. Eisner’s earlier framework provides a point of comparison for McCloud’s definition and analysis.
Closure (comics): The mental process by which viewers infer events between images in a comic sequence. McCloud makes closure central to how readers experience transitions between panels.
Digital Comics: Comics created or distributed in digital formats, including web-based and mobile works. McCloud argued that digital formats could expand comics beyond the printed page.

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Gutter (comics)Related: McCloud popularized the gutter as a central account of how comics invite inference.