He attended Syracuse University's Illustration program and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1982. He decided he wanted to be a comics artist in 1975, during his junior year in high school.
McCloud was born in 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts, the youngest child of Willard Wise (a blind inventor and engineer) and Patricia Beatrice McLeod, and spent most of his childhood in Lexington, Massachusetts. He rose to prominence in the industry beginning in the 1990s for his non-fiction works about the medium, and has advocated the use of new technology in the creation and distribution of comics. He established himself as a comics creator in the 1980s as an independent superhero cartoonist and advocate for creator's rights. He is best known for his non-fiction books about comics: Understanding Comics (1993), Reinventing Comics (2000), and Making Comics (2006), all of which also use the medium of comics. Scott McCloud (born Scott McLeod June 10, 1960) is an American cartoonist and comics theorist.
