# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/scott-mccloud
# Generated: 2026-08-13T06:58:16.507Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/scott-mccloud"
name: "Scott McCloud"
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description: "Scott McCloud is an American cartoonist and comics theorist. His non-fiction books about comics, Understanding Comics (1993), Reinventing Comics (2000), and Making Comics (2006), are made in comic form."
tagline: "American cartoonist and comics theorist (b. 1960)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Scott_McCloud.Making_Comics_Tour.RISD.gk.JPG?width=1200"
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1960-06-10"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump