Paste: The Sculptor is so emotionally raw. Paste spoke with McCloud via phone to chat about the subjective goal of art, reconnecting with your inner starving artist and the difference between Tommy Wisseau and Stanley Kubrick. The catch? David only has 200 days to confirm his artistic legacy before departing the mortal plane.Īfter spending the past 60 months executing this ambitious vision (released this Tuesday by First Second), McCloud has crafted a work that adeptly channels the fragility of growing artists and their fractured relationships. David soon makes a faustian pack with Death - in the guise of his amicable Uncle Harry - for the power to construct whatever concept he can visualize with whatever materials he can find. Drafted over five years, this 500-page tome chronicles David, an abrasive, obsessive artist, in his journey to create a masterpiece that will survive his own mortality. With his new massive graphic novel The Sculptor, McCloud marries that rigorous academia to an evocative epic that explores the metaphysics and emotions of creation. Through his trifecta of educational texts - Understanding Comics, Making Comics and Reinventing Comics - the cartoonist and theorist has dissected the major tenants of what comics are, will be and could be. Scott McCloud has solidified his position as an elder statesman of the comic book and cartoon medium over the past three decades.
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