Talk:Scott McCloud

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I think Scott Mccloud's wikipedia entry deserves a lot more attention. -Sam

Have you noticed that "Making Comics" directs to here? Perhaps not a problem, but if not, we should remove the link to "Making Comics." It's silly to have a page link to itself.

Contents 1 Scott McCloud and Kurt Busiek 2 Scott McCloud and Penny-arcade 3 Family and last name 4 WP:POV, "Scholar", uncited statements. 5 Removing "citations missing" tag 6 Making Comics redirect

[edit] Scott McCloud and Kurt Busiek

There's no mention of the fact that Scott McCloud (still can't get used to that spelling) was a childhood friend of Kurt Busiek and that they created near-professional quality comic books together in high school. I'd add it, except for the fact I can't cite supporting materials. I went to high school with them, so I have direct knowledge of this. Scott & Kurt were obviously both prodigies and I think that's relevant, but I don't want to violate the wikipedia policies on citing sources.

Ct4ul4u (talk) 00:39, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Scott McCloud and Penny-arcade

Something should be in here about Scott McCloud's fight with PA or at least some criticisms of his work.
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I have to agree with this. After all, it wasn't simply a "vanity fight" over most page hits or the highest popularity, but it was based on differing outlooks with regards to the medium and future of webcomics (inspite of the petty insults). And a few other prominent webcomic creators, such as Kurtz got involved in it, too, which made the webisode (ha! geddit?) all the more notable. 85.72.166.21 18:37, 14 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Family and last name

Should we mention that he is married and has a family, and that his last name was Anglicized to the current one, though it is pronounced the same way (the current article is modestly misleading on this point)? -- Gwern (contribs) 21:34, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

I always wondered if his name had anything to do with Fox. :P Shay Guy 00:05, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

I asked him about that, and alas, it does not. :( --Gwern (contribs) 01:04, 31 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] WP:POV, "Scholar", uncited statements.

• I removed several comments that represented a point of view of the editor ("popular", "most ambitious", "widely considered", etc...).
• From the information in this article, Mr. McCloud would not qualify as a "scholar". His writings represent a personal point of view, rather than an amalgamation of information based on a founded basis of non-partisan research. I found the qualifier "theorist" used elsewhere on this page to be much more aplicable and have edited the statements refering to Mr. mcCloud as a scholar to match.
• I am tagging this page as containing uncited statements, please see inline citations I added.

LeilaniLad (talk) 14:03, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Removing "citations missing" tag

I've removed the "citations missing" tag since there are seven citations in the article already. If there are specific parts of the article that need citations, please tag those specific parts or draw attention you concerns here on the talk page. --Dragonfiend (talk) 21:52, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Making Comics redirect

Does anyone else realize that Making Comics redirects here? That probably should not be like that.--Mynameisnotpj (talk) 02:00, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

• Until someone writes a Making Comics article, the redirect makes sense. --Dragonfiend (talk) 05:18, 9 April 2008 (UTC)