Scott McCloud
Scott McCloud (born 1960 in Massachusetts, USA) is a cartoonist and comic strip writer and also a leading scholar of the comics as a distict artistic medium.Scott McCloud created the fictional character Zot in 1984 as a fun counter-balance to the often too-serious superhero genre. However, though he has remained active as a writer and illustrator in the comics industry, he is known primarily as a comics theorist due to his well-named, comprehensive volume titled Understanding Comics.
He was also one of the earliest creators of web comics and a vocal supporter of micropayments. He's an advisor to BitPass, a company providing a micropayment system for the Web.
McCloud is currently working on The Right Number, an online novella and he updates his weblog/comic experiment, the Morning Improv, daily.
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Scott McCloud is also the name of a fictional character in an animation series broadcast in syndication from 1962 to 1964 on sevral TV stations in North America.
This Science Fiction series was titled Space Angel or Scott McCloud, Space Angel and used a combination of limited animation and synchronized lip movements.