Scott McCloud

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2009

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Scott McCloud is the comics artist behind the seminal "Understanding Comics," among many others. His newest is a collection of his 1980s series "Zot!"

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Brian from Dallas.
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0:10.8	Thanks.
0:11.6	Live on tape from my house in Los Angeles.
0:14.0	I'm Jesse Thorn, and this is the Sound of Young America
0:16.8	from MaximumFund.org.
0:18.8	It's the Sound of Young America.
0:41.2	I'm Jesse Thorn.
0:42.2	My guest on the program is Scott McLeod.
0:45.2	He's a comics artist whose books include
0:48.9	Understanding Comics, Creating Comics, Reinventing Comics,
0:53.9	and most recently, a compilation of the Superhero Metacomick,
1:00.7	you might say, to some extent that he
1:02.6	published during the 1980s, Zot.
1:05.3	His previous books on the subject of comics
1:08.9	have become canonical, particularly
1:11.1	the first Understanding Comics, which
1:13.6	is universally regarded as the best guide to reading comics
1:18.1	as a medium.
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