Christopher Mautner dropped us a note to let us know the “director’s cut” version of his recent interview with Making Comics author Scott McCloud is now available on Mautner’s blog, Panels & Pixels. I like this part:
Q: Is there any kind of overriding ideas that you wanted to get across? What for you was the central aspect of the book?
A: If a reader would only remember one thing from the book, I would hope that it would be the same thing that I hope they would take away from the first book, “Understanding Comics,” which is that comics are a blank page. There’s really no right tool, no right style, no right content. They can fill that page with whatever they like.
And I give them options, choices, tools, ideas for how to best express what they have in mind, but it’s really important to remember that blank page. Remember that it’s a wide open field. Comics can accomidate anything you want to say.
You can check out the published version here. For more information on the McCloud family’s adventures, check out their LiveJournal.
