The Sound of Young America: Scott McCloud, Author of Understanding Comics and Zot!

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Scott McCloud is both an accomplished comics creator and critic. His books of comics criticism, “Understanding Comics,” “Reinventing Comics” and “Making Comics” are classics of the form, and are standard-issue in hip literature classes around the country. His newest book is a compilation of his 1980s superhero series Zot!. He talks with us about how to read comics and how he incorporated the influences of the comics of other cultures into his own work in the ’80s.

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