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Virtual Memories Show #137:
\nScott McCloud – Tumblings<\/a><\/p>\n

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“I want to be working, making comics, and knowing that the thing I’m doing right now is the thing I should be doing and I shouldn’t feel guilty about doing it. I’ve been able to keep that going much of the time for the last 20 years, and it’s kinda great.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is Scott McCloud<\/a> comics’ leading theorist or a deranged lunatic? Find out in this lengthy conversation we recorded during SPX<\/a> 2015! Scott talks about applying (and forgetting) the lessons of Understanding Comics<\/a>\"\" in his new book, The Sculptor<\/a>\"\" (First Second), the massive implications of crowdfunding for cartoonists and other creators, the problems with ‘balance’ in comics pages, his rebellion against Facebook, the Laurie Anderson model of comics, how he defines success, how to keep a happy marriage inside the comics world, and more! Give it a listen!<\/a><\/p>\n

“We’ve never seen the consumer dollar at full strength. In traditional print markets, somebody spends a dollar on my work, and I get 10 cents at the end of that chain, that massive army of middlemen. Now we’re seeing what kind of world happens when the consumer dollar stays closer to a dollar. That army of consumers really has an enormous power to put your boat afloat.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We also talk about his next book (on visual communication and education), his strengths and weaknesses as a cartoonist, making a 500-page comic book that readers could tackle in one sitting, why Reinventing Comics<\/em> was like “trying to eat 10 lbs. of potato salad”, how every success story in cartooning is unique, the differences in working in print vs. working for the screen, and trying to be a scholar for the first time. Now go listen!<\/a><\/p>\n

“Craig Thompson’s\u00a0Blankets<\/a>\"\" is probably off the hook now, because I finally did a comic\u00a0even more sentimental. So now I made Craig look like Gary Panter.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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We mention a few books in this episode. Here they are:<\/p>\n