He attended the University of Guelph[2] where he graduated with a Master of Fine Arts.
In a review for The Walrus, Chris Hampton noted that "Though Wendy’s escapades are fiction, Scott’s economical and expressionistic black-and-white cartoons may be one of the most faithful representations of a young artist attempting to climb the Canadian art world, with its hobnobbery, esoteric granting systems, imperative side hustles, and—most Canadian of all—the dream of success abroad.
This includes a section set in Yokohama which was originally published as a zine in Japanese in Japan; in the book this is presented with the English language text on a separate page on the right.
The Comics Journal said in a review that "in addition to his operatically expressive drawings, Scott’s satire still manages to provoke genuine sympathy and pathos for his characters, as they strive to find their footing in a difficult profession at a notoriously confusing time of life.
The New Yorker ran a feature on its release, noting that "Scott’s fairly tight concentration on the foibles of art school puts this book in league with other texts that have come before it, like Dan Clowes’s “Art School Confidential, or Rachel B. Glaser’s novel, Paulina and Fran.