Meet the author

Scott McCloud.

Writer & illustrator · United States · b. 1960

Scott McCloud: canonical American comics theorist behind Understanding Comics, plus the middle-grade graphic novel The Cartoonists Club (with Raina Telgemeier) — defining voice on comics-as-medium for ages 9+.

Scott McCloud is an American cartoonist born in 1960, best known to the comics world as the author of Understanding Comics (1993), Reinventing Comics and Making Comics, the canonical theoretical works on how comics actually function as a medium, now used as textbooks in art schools and creative-writing programmes worldwide. To children's-book readers his contribution is The Cartoonists Club (with Raina Telgemeier as co-author / co-illustrator), a middle-grade graphic novel that brings his Understanding-Comics ideas down to a young-reader level inside a friendship story. A core canonical voice in contemporary comics for readers ages 9+.