![]() John Dermot Woods: Is The Sculptor the first long work of fiction that you’ve created since you published Understanding Comics in 1994? ![]() ![]() We spoke over the phone recently to discuss the origins of The Sculptor, the critical demands of making comics, and where McCloud sees his career going next. ![]() McCloud uses a clean and flowing approach that encourages us more to experience this story than to pay attention to its individual pages and isolated moments. This book follows the story of a young sculptor, named David Smith (not that David Smith), who makes a deal with the devil in hopes of achieving artistic success. Now, after decades at the forefront of the critical discussion, McCloud is a debut graphic novelist, with the publication of his 500-page opus, The Sculptor. More than any individual - including Art Spiegelman, Alison Bechdel, Will Eisner, and Marjane Satrapi - we have McCloud to thank for the medium’s broader esteem. Now comics are deeply ingrained in the American academic canon and they are no longer shelved as ‘Humor’ at the local Barnes and Noble. ![]() And Calvin and Hobbes was still carried in most American newspapers. When Scott McCloud published Understanding Comics more than twenty years ago, appreciating graphic novels was not a signifier of cultural capital, and comic books were still actually published for children. ![]()
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