Thu Jan 31, 2008 — by Rick Marshall

Scott McCloud: Comics On Comics

It's a comic about creating comics... get it?

"Comics Theorist" Scott McCloud (Understanding Comics) is the subject of this English-language interview by the crew at ComicGate, a German comics news site.

The interview touches on a variety of subjects, from McCloud's early expectations for Understanding Comics to what exactly his job description is these days. Apparently, it's not easy to come up with a title when you're creating comics as a study of comics.

McCloud explains:

When somebody asks me what I do, how do I answer? What words do we put down on the catalogue, or whatever? These days I say cartoonist and author. That pretty much sums it up. I do a lot of public speaking, but I am doing it as a cartoonist and an author. I would like to be a little more cartoonist and a little less author for a little while. I would like to create a graphic-novel next and I plan to spend the next two or three years of my life doing that. I think it is time after writing about how comics work to actually put those ideas into practice and try to create a work of fiction.

It's a fairly long interview, but certainly worth a read for anyone interested in comics theory and the evolving role of technology in the comics scene.

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