Monday, 18 March 2013

Scott McCloud


He is an American cartoonist born in 1960 in Boston Massachusetts, he has created the science fiction book/superhero comic book series called Zot! In 1984 and other print comic books. There was a total of 36 issues of Zot! Who was a hero from an alternate Earth who can fly with rocket boots and fights villains with a laser gun. The first ten of the issues were in colour where as the rest were in black and white it ran from 1984 to 1990. In 1990 he had an idea of a 24 hour comic which was a complete 24 page created by a single cartoonist in 24 hours. Thousands of cartoonists have signed up to the challenge since. He sketches his layouts in pencil but most of his work is done digitally, he scans the work to his computer and then creates them in Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. He explains how he has done his working his 2006 book Making Comics. He has also done web comics of ones you can read online he has made a web comic he has also done a Google Chrome comic explaining all about the browser and how to use it.
Zot! comic book by Scott McCloud


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