The Zot! Collections

Though currently out of print, you may still find copies of these collections:

1. ...at a Comics Retailer near you...
2. ...at online comics retailers like Mile High Comics...
3. ...or at online booksellers like Amazon.com
4. Meanwhile, some individual issues and the Eclipse Collection (issues #1-4 only) might also be found at Lucky Mojo, Cat Yronwode's site.

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Overview:

I was 23 years old and living in Manhattan when I began writing and drawing this, my first published comic. Zot! ran for 36 issues at California's Eclipse Comics. Though ostensibly a superhero story, Zot! had an alternative flavor and featured some unorthodox storytelling and compositions. "A cross between Peter Pan, Buck Rogers and Marshall McLuhan" is how I usually describe it.

Zot! was a bit childlike and awkward in spots but managed to earn something of a cult following during its 6 year run and provided a testing ground for a lot of the ideas about comics storytelling that would later end up in Understanding Comics. Parts of it can still make me cringe with embarrassment, but overall, I like the series and don't regret the years I spent on it. I also have a soft spot for many of the characters and themes which led me to create Zot! Online in 2000.

(36 issues from 1984 to 1991. Most -- but not all! -- collected in book form in the mid-to--late 90s. See below for more details).

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Quotes:

"The classic retrofit of the post-war comics gestalt."
- William Gibson

"Zot! is refreshing, lively, and truly entertaining. No contemporary comics artist does as much with the classical iconography of post-World War II flat yellow comics as Scott McCloud. Although McCloud appears to return us to a simpler time, we soon realize his simplicity masks a world of rich complexities."
- Samuel R. Delany

"Zot! is wonderful. It's a cross between Robert Heinlein and Tintin, and should please readers of all ages. It certainly pleased me and my children."
- Greg Bear

"Zot! is a remarkable graphic narrative. The clean lines, graceful composition, brilliant colors, and buoyant, joyous feeling show his chief influence is the great C. C. Beck. But I detect touches here and there of Steve Ditko, the architectural complexities of Frank R. Paul, the zany exuberance of Dr. Seuss, the psychedelic neo-deco flowering of Peter Max, and the pre-deco fantasies of W. W. Denslow. The resulting synthesis is something purely McCloud's. Couple this bright drawing style with a similarly energetic story line, and you have an irresistible mix."
- Richard A. Lupoff

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From my F.A.Q. file : When is the #*%&! fourth Zot! Collection coming out??

An extremely "frequently" asked question. Unfortunately, the answer is: I don't know yet! Volume Four, collecting issues 28-36 of my first series, the so-called "Earth Stories," was about to be published by Kitchen Sink Press when that venerable publisher was hijacked by its investors and its founder, Denis Kitchen, forced out. Zot! can and will be extracted in the wake of KSP's subsequent demise, but it'll take some time and energy. Be assured that as soon as there's news, I'll post it, but it could be a while yet: