“Everybody should do mini-comics. Take four hours some night. I don’t care if you’ve never done a comic in your life, you can do a mini-comic.
The main reason that mini-comics are so exciting to me is that they’re so easy to do, to publish, in terms of actually constructing the thing, getting them printed up and all. They’re in such a simple format that fans could be doing mini-comics all the time. Instead of buying the ‘right’ bristol board, and pen sets, practicing thigh muscles – if instead they just started making comics and giving them to friends, giving them to people who had nothing to do with comics, doing them about their own lives, about things that happen to them every day that their friends have some reference for – people would start to develop their own way of telling a story, their own styles would evolve, just naturally. And suddenly there’d be so many more diverse styles than now, where everybody who thinks about breaking into comics thinks in terms of Marvel first, DC second.
It won’t matter that you can’t draw a man to look like anything other than a cucumber, it doesn’t matter, because it’s all among friends. You get the full range of experience from writing to art to lettering to printing, even selling, in some cases, and most of all reader reaction, which is where it all happens!”
— Scott McCloud