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By stripping down an image to essential meaning, an artist can simplify that meaning.

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Scott McCloud
Age: 64
Born: 1960
Born: June 10
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Painter
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Stripping
Simplify
Essential
Essentials
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A medium is a bridge between two minds.
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It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.
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To kill a man between panels is to condemn him to a thousand deaths.
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