'An outstanding achievement, extraordinarily moving and memorable. Comics writer/illustrator and theorist McCloud (Making Comics, 2006, etc.) presents an artist’s struggle to make a name for himself and the complications love brings to the Faustian deal hes made to gain total control of his craft. 'After previously explaining the art of making, reading, and understanding comics in his trilogy of essential guides to the medium, McCloud, in this gloriously romantic graphic novel, doesn't just define a genre-he exemplifies it.' 'A work of stunning, timeless graphic literature.' It's about art and love and why we keep on trying. He began the international 24-Hour Comic movement and is a frequent lecturer on the power of comics and visual communication. 'The best graphic novel I've read in years. Scott McCloud is the award-winning author of Understanding Comics, Making Comics, Zot and other fiction and nonfiction comics spanning thirty years. Recent Audio Interviews on CBC's Q and the podcast Make it Then Tell Everybody.Want me to visit at your school, company, or organization? Details here.The Sculptor Font by John Roshell, based on my handwriting, and see my two-part digital lettering YouTube demo here and here.An early video glimpse of the Hardcover.But now that he only has 200 days to live, deciding what to create is harder than he thought, and discovering the love of his life at the eleventh hour isn't making it any easier. Scott McCloud changed the way we think about comics with his groundbreaking 1993 comics theory book Understanding Comics. Thanks to a deal with Death, the young sculptor gets his childhood wish: to sculpt anything he can imagine with his bare hands. Interview: Scott McCloud On The Sculptor and Balancing Art and Life. I like this book a lot and I hope you will too.ĭavid Smith is giving his life for his art-literally. Dealers once called him the other David Smith, to. A sculptor named David Smith has washed out of the New York art world.

The Sculptor took five years to write and draw and I used every minute to make it the best reading experience I could. McCloud’s plot is easy to summarize: It’s the Faust legend.

The Sculptor by Scott McCloud