• "Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard."
• "Comics offers tremendous resources to all writers and artists: faithfulness, control, a chance to be heard far and wide without fear of compromise."
• "Comics is a powerful idea, but an idea that's been squandered, ignored and misunderstood for generations. No art form has lived in a smaller box than comics for the last hundred years. It's time for comics to finally grow up and find the art beneath the craft."
• [The digital revolution, he argued, would bring comics closer to their roots: cave paintings. Yes, cave paintings.] "The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas."
• "Perhaps we’ve been too conditioned by photography to perceive single images as single moments. After all, it does take an eye time to move across scenes in real life"
• "In learning to read comics we have learned to perceive time spatially, for in the world of comics, time and space are one and the sameso as readers, we’ve left with only a vague sense that as our eyes are moving thru space, they’re also moving thru time-we just don’t know by how much"
• "The idea that the reader might choose a direction is still considered exotic... This may, in part, be the influence of other media like film and television where viewer choice has not generally been feasible".
• "Yet we seldom do change direction, except to re-read or review passages. It's left to right, up to down, page after page."
• "Panel shapes vary considerably though, and while differences of shape don't affect the specific 'meanings' of those panels vis-a-vis time, they can affect the reading experience."

• The Invisible Art (1993, ISBN 0-613-02782-5)
• How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form (2000, ISBN 0-06-095350-0)
• Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels (2006, ISBN 0-06-078094-0)

Interviews

• "Interview with Scott McCloud, artist behind Google Chrome comic" New York Daily News (Sept. 7, 2008).
• "Interview of McCloud by R.C. Harvey, excerpted from The Comics Journal #179" "The Comics Journal"
• "Still Thinking: By Charles Hatfield" "The Comics Journal"