By Heart is a series in which authors share and discuss their all-time favorite passages in literature. See entries from Jonathan Franzen, Amy Tan, Khaled Hosseini, and more. Doug McLeanScott McCloud’s been making comics professionally since 1984, but a new book, The Sculptor, is his first full-length graphic novel. McCloud is best known as a theorist—he’s spent the better part of his career on a trio of graphic textbooks (Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, and Making Comics) that deconstruct the magic and mystery of the form.