With The Sculptor, Scott McCloud makes a splash in comics for the first time in years.
Scott McCloud sounds at peace with the fact that he’ll always be best known for Understanding Comics, which he published back in 1993. Understanding (and, to a lesser extent, its sequels, Reinventing Comics and Making Comics) headlines literature and comics course syllabi in universities around the world, and for good reason; it’s a brilliant explanation of what makes comics work as a medium, the kind of influential work that demands to be described as a masterpiece…