This is a few years old (from 2005) and was posted online almost two years ago, but I just found it again. Scott McCloud at the TED conference talking about comics.

One of the problems with getting more people interested in comics, is explaining what exactly comics are. Scott McCloud is not only a comic artist with as wonderful series Zot (my review) on his resume, but he is also a comic inventor. Among his inventions are 24 Hour Comics, The Creator’s Bill of Rights and 5 Card Nancy. McCloud has given us an essential book that not only explains what comics are, but explains the how and the why. He has taken comics back to the basics and given the world the first book that truly helps people in Understanding Comics. So how does he do it?

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Zot by Scott McCloud (author of Understanding Comics and Reinventing Comics) was a fun superhero book in the 1980s. Zot is the nickname of Zachary T. Paleozogt, a hero from a nearby dimension which is closer to the 1950s than the 1980s. When everyone else was going grim and gritty, McCloud made a light hearted super hero stroy. There were 10 issues published and then McCloud took a break. He came back and did 26 more issues. But the ones we are focusing on here are issues 28-36, when Zot is trapped on Earth.

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