COMIC ARTIST

Scott McCloud

1960 - Today

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Scott McCloud (born Scott McLeod; June 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist and comics theorist. His non-fiction books about comics, Understanding Comics (1993), Reinventing Comics (2000), and Making Comics (2006), are made in comic form. He became established as a comics creator in the 1980s as an independent superhero cartoonist and advocate for creator's rights. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Scott McCloud has received more than 325,010 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Scott McCloud is the 180th most popular comic artist (down from 162nd in 2019), the 11,809th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,663rd in 2019) and the 46th most popular American Comic Artist.

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  • 330k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.91

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Scott McCloud ranks 180 out of 226. Before him are Kōsuke Fujishima, One, Peter Laird, Kōhei Horikoshi, Katsura Hoshino, and Robert Kirkman. After him are Yoshitoshi ABe, Joe Kubert, Garth Ennis, Arina Tanemura, Daniel Clowes, and Gary Larson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1960, Scott McCloud ranks 521. Before him are Tomás Reñones, Uddhav Thackeray, Richard Biggs, Igor Nikulin, Maia Panjikidze, and Michelle Paver. After him are Sergey Menyaylo, Diane Williams, Carlos Alberto Santos, Aimee Mann, Malouma, and Michel Faber.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Scott McCloud ranks 11,809 out of 20,380. Before him are Karl Gordon Henize (1926), Charles Drake (1917), Rosemary Radford Ruether (1936), Bucky Pizzarelli (1926), Goldust (1969), and Satch Sanders (1938). After him are Roy Brown (1925), Jennifer Syme (1972), Leslie Feinberg (1949), Leonard Jimmie Savage (1917), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (1989), and Jennifer Egan (1962).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In United States

Among comic artists born in United States, Scott McCloud ranks 46. Before him are Alison Bechdel (1960), Harvey Pekar (1939), Bill Watterson (1958), Scott Adams (1957), Peter Laird (1954), and Robert Kirkman (1978). After him are Daniel Clowes (1961), Gary Larson (1950), Walt Kelly (1913), Kevin Eastman (1962), Bruce Timm (1961), and Nina Paley (1968).

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