An interview with Scott McCloud.

One of the eternal tensions of comics might be this dual aspiration that we have, on the one hand, to ensure that words and pictures are integrated. That they feel as if they were drawn by the same hand, feel as if they belong together—that they’re flip sides to the same coin. And, on the other hand, to take advantage of the unique potential of words, and the unique potential of pictures, which often sends them in opposite directions.

In the course of the interview, he also mentions Dylan Horrock’s critical essay “Inventing Comics,” which is worth a read.