I dug the McCloud Inkstuds interview even though I was hoping you'd shit talk The Sculptor:) I'm interested to know if you have any thoughts on McCloud, or more specifically The Sculptor and how it's getting a lot of acclaim and media coverage that it may

Cool, I’m glad you liked the interview. I remember it being fun. I hadn’t read The Sculptor when I did that interview. I had a copy around here that Simon Roy borrowed. 

I read the start of it & was frustrated with the main character. He seemed to only put value on people who were successful artist. There’s a scene where he talks about a nightmare where people are falling into an abyss without ever realizing their artistic dreams– It seemed like a shit way to view other humans. 

It’s cool to succeed on some level at being an artist, but I don’t think any sane person would argue that it’s more important than being a good person or just living a good life. –maybe that was the point of the story –maybe he grows by the end, but it’s hard to care when I already didn’t like him & regarded his problems as not real problems. I think hes like 25 and used to be a famous sculptor. Maybe that’s a problem?, it’s gotta be hard on art to have acclaim too early.

Anyway, I should actually finish the thing. I would assume McCloud’s whole deal would be an inclusive bringing people into making art, with his Understanding comics books. I do like Scott & think he does interesting stuff. I I dunno if I clicked with everything in Understanding comics but reading it always made me wanna think about the art form in new ways. and I know it was a big entry point for a lot of people (plus McCloud said nice things about Marian when I met him in Europe– that tends to win me over)