Award-Winning Comics Theorist Scott McCloud ’82 to Present Lecture Feb. 9

The College of Visual and Performing Arts’ School of Art will present a lecture by award-winning author and comics theorist Scott McCloud ’82 on Thursday, Feb. 9, at 6:30 p.m. in Shemin Auditorium, Shaffer Art Building. The talk is free and open to the public.

McCloud’s work includes the highly influential “Understanding Comics” (1993), “Making Comics” (2006), “Zot!” (2008) and “The Sculptor” (2015) as well as other fiction and nonfiction comics spanning 30 years. He is a frequent lecturer on the power of visual communication; creator of the 24-Hour Comic movement; and, in 2021, was inducted into the Eisner Awards Hall of Fame. His art and stories are available in more than 30 languages and on the web at scottmccloud.com.

McCloud graduated with a B.F.A. in illustration from the School of Art. His visit is presented as part of the school’s Visiting Artist Lecture Series.