Quotes about Comics

Comics are a gateway into literature. Votes: 3

Kid ... Comics will break your heart. Votes: 3

Comics are a gateway drug to literacy. Votes: 3

Comics are cool. I read 'Batman' and 'Spawn'. Votes: 3

My mother wouldn't even let me read DC Comics. Votes: 3

Comics definitely embody the importance of practicing free speech. Votes: 3

Comics are essentially films with fewer frames per second. Votes: 3

Comics don't like to see other comics do well. Votes: 3

Comics could use more creators with something worthwhile to say. Votes: 3

Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects Votes: 3

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively. Votes: 3

Comics also led a lot of young people to science fiction. Votes: 3

Comics taught me how to write, and also patience and confidence. Votes: 3

I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best. Votes: 3

Comics don't usually have very long careers, and I'm 22 years into this. Votes: 3

Comics just don't retire. They either die young or they go to 100. Votes: 3

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out. Votes: 3

Comics brought me to the dance. It'll always be my first loyalty. Votes: 3

Comics seem to be cooking these days. It's like being a rock star. Votes: 3

Comics can definitely be subversive on the whole, but it's a stylistic thing. Votes: 3

Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures. Votes: 3

Watchmen' is a cornerstone of both DC Comics' publishing history and its future. Votes: 3

Comics are in my blood. It's my strange addiction, and I love it. Votes: 3

Aquaman is one of the greatest characters at DC Comics and one of my favorites. Votes: 3

Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie. Votes: 3

Comics are actually dubbed by euphemistic label of graphic novel, which became a big deal. Votes: 3

Comics are carried by characters. If a character is well-created, the comic becomes a hit. Votes: 3

Comics are drawings, not photographs, and as such they present a subjective view of reality. Votes: 3

Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer. Votes: 3

If the bible proves the existence of God, then Action Comics prove the existence of Superman. Votes: 3

Comics can be pernicious, fascist propaganda or anti-authoritarian. The ones that shaped me were particularly anti-authoritarian. Votes: 3

I am someone who, from a very young age, was a huge fan of DC Comics. Votes: 3

If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write. Votes: 3

At DC Comics, it has been a top priority that DC forges a meaningful, forward-looking digital strategy. Votes: 3

Comics are an international language, they can cross boundaries and generations. Comics are a bridge between all cultures. Votes: 3

I'm a huge Marvel Comics fan, and I'm a huge 'Wolverine' fan, I like the 'X-Men' comic book. Votes: 3

Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world. Votes: 3

'The Green Turtle' wasn't all that popular. He lasted only five issues of Blazing Comics before disappearing into obscurity. Votes: 3

I've always said that I learned the English I know through two sources -- Marvel Comics and Finnegans Wake. Votes: 3

A lot of the actresses who were around when I started, I don't know where they are. Comics stick around. Votes: 3

Comics have a caste system - an editor has to act in a certain way, an artist has to be humble. Votes: 3

Geek and Sundry has an eclectic line-up of shows all targeted around things I love: Comics, Tabletop Games, Books and more. Votes: 3

Comics are such a powerful educational tool. Simply put, there are certain kinds of information that are best communicated through sequential visuals. Votes: 3

Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other practitioners. Votes: 3

Comics were a place where captivating images lit your imagination and showed you that you can create new kinds of people and worlds. Votes: 3

I was cast in 'Thor' back in 2009, so it sort of took me out of the running for anything tied to DC Comics. Votes: 3

Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal. Votes: 3

Comics seemed to have a handle on things. They could sort of disarm and get control over reality. I found it very comforting to laugh. Votes: 3

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics. Votes: 3

Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it. Votes: 3

My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics. Votes: 3

I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle. Votes: 3

Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny. Votes: 3

Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature and my love of film. Votes: 3

In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that. Votes: 3

Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics. Votes: 3

Just looking at pictures' used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with no words are now accepted as reading. Votes: 3

Just looking at pictures used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with no words are now accepted as reading. Votes: 3

Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from. Votes: 3

Marvel Comics announced that the next Captain America will be black. He has the same powers as white Captain America, except he has to show I.D. when he votes. Votes: 3

Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty. Votes: 3

Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith in the artists to allow them to do their job. Votes: 3

I'm going to take over on the Techno Comics so I'm going to be dealing in the children's merchandising type department. But that's just setting it up and having somebody run it. Votes: 3

When I first got the audition for Shado, I went online and subscribed to DC Comics and read a bunch on Shado and the Yakuza, just to get to know her character better. Votes: 3

Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some guys can say the most horrible things and it's not offensive, it's funny? Votes: 3

I remember 9/11; we had 'Comics Come Home' about a month after those events. That night, even the comedians were concerned. Would the audience be ready to laugh? It was a release for everyone. Votes: 3

I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is just a way of narrating - it's just a media type. Votes: 3

Part of running DC Comics is that it's much larger than Image Comics is, or was. There's a challenge to being one of the industry leaders in that everything you do is scrutinized and watched. Votes: 3

Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can't do, and vice versa. Votes: 3

Comics, a lot of them, are really depressed people, and I happen to be somebody that does have a lot of confidence. That's the odd thing about my stand-up. I am very confident. I always was. Votes: 3

A study last year showed that the page you turn to first in the newspaper can be a predictor of how long you will live. No surprise, turning first to the Comics Pages prolongs your life. Votes: 3

We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment. Votes: 2

It was harder to break into comics than it was to become a singer in a rock band. Votes: 2

I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form. Votes: 2

I think as time goes by you'll get female comics who are weirder - you'll get a female Mighty Boosh. Votes: 2

Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into! Votes: 2

I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics. Votes: 2

A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target whenever an election comes up. Votes: 2

We don't apologize for a joke. We are comics. We are here to make you laugh. If you don't get it, then don't watch us. Votes: 2

The comics I hate are thieves. Nothing's more disgusting than a guy who steals another person's ideas and tries to claim them as his own. Votes: 2

When I started writing comics, 'comics writer' was the most obscure job in the world! If I wanted to be a celebrity, I would have become a moody English screen actor. Votes: 2

I created lots of characters in high school and college, and the first character I created in pro comics was Liana, Green Lantern of M'Elu, for a backup story in 'Green Lantern #162,' my first professional sale. Votes: 2

There are two kinds of comics; there are the ones who build bridges, and then there are the people who walk across the bridges as though they built them. The bridge builders are few and far between. Votes: 2

These 'mistakes' occur in my books for a reason. I have an agenda: I'm secretly trying to inspire kids to create their own stories and comics, and I don't want them to feel stifled by 'perfectionism.' Votes: 2

I'm not just offensive, I'm very smart about the way that I do it, and that takes a lot of time. People say that young comics shouldn't be trying these things. That's ridiculous. You should try everything and see what sticks. Votes: 2

Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn't work out. But maybe because it didn't work out, that's why I ended up on 'Breaking Bad;' I don't know. Votes: 2

There's a widespread cultural barrenness across art and political culture. But there are some pockets of resistance on the extreme margins, like the techno-savvy protest movements, small press, the creator-owned comics, that seem to be getting some signs of hope for the future. Votes: 2

I live making comics. Comics is an industrial art but less suffering, because comics are for young people who are more adventurous. I do that. I live off comics, and then I write books, but when you want movies, you cannot make movies without money. Votes: 2

Jerry Robinson illustrated some of the defining images of pop culture's greatest icons. As an artist myself, it's impossible not to feel humbled by his body of work. Everyone who loves comics owes Jerry a debt of gratitude for the rich legacy that he leaves behind. Votes: 2

I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line work. And when I kind of abandoned comics, through college and art school, I was doing a lot of painting. But once I started doing comics again, everything else just fell by the wayside. Votes: 2

I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights. Votes: 2

I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere. Votes: 2

Sometimes, comics will make the observation that it's not jokes that are funny, it's characters that are funny. And isn't that true! That's why I always kill jokes. I'm terrible at them, because I get the joke right, but I can't get the character right, and it just goes down like a lead balloon. Votes: 2

I've been reading comics since I was four. I used to get them when I would go grocery shopping with my mom. I remember getting the digest versions of old DC comics. The one that I remember reading first was Paul Levitz' 'Justice Society of America' stuff that he was doing in the '70s. Votes: 2

I wanted to make comics that get at feelings that connect to the deepest moments of our lives, reading Tolstoy, Flaubert, Flannery O'Connor, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov and Carver to help gain the confidence to figure it out. I knew, however, the most doomed approach would be to simply create stories that felt 'literary.' Votes: 2

People, they think that animation is a style. Animation is just a technique. It's like, people, they think that comics is a style, like comics is a superhero story. Comic is just a narration, and is a medium, you can say any kind of story in comics and you can say of any kind of story in animation. Votes: 2

I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life. Votes: 2

Socrates should have written comics. Votes: 0

Creativity and Innovation produces better comics. Votes: 0

Movies help the sales of the comics. Votes: 0

Anyone should be able to read comics. Votes: 0

Who needs girls when you've got comics? Votes: 0

So many comics have such low self-esteem. Votes: 0

Print and digital comics will always coexist. Votes: 0

I tend to stay away from the comics. Votes: 0

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them. Votes: 0

I don't want little kids reading my comics. Votes: 0

I hadn't read the Dr. Strange comics growing up. Votes: 0

I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history. Votes: 0

I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot. Votes: 0

I have 15,000 comics in a warehouse, all bagged individually. Votes: 0

Space does for comics what time does for film! Votes: 0

The most successful comics are always the hardest-working ones. Votes: 0

I read Superman comics when I was a kid. Votes: 0

People still go to Comic-Con because they love comics. Votes: 0

And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client. Votes: 0

And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client Votes: 0

Repeats are the absolute soul-crushing killers of the comics page. Votes: 0

There is also a kind of mean-spiritedness with LA comics. Votes: 0

We, the comics that we like, we're all, like, post-humor. Votes: 0

I love to be able to support other women comics. Votes: 0

The real power of comics is writing as you draw. Votes: 0

I used to read comics when I was a kid. Votes: 0

Bullying new comics at open mic nights? NOT ON MY WATCH! Votes: 0

I don't think of cartoons or comics as being for kids. Votes: 0

But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression. Votes: 0

It's funny: There's a lot of comics on 'Breaking Bad.' Votes: 0

But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression Votes: 0

My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace. Votes: 0

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics. Votes: 0

Now we are living in the age of comics as air Votes: 0

The comics are where all the crazy subconscious stuff comes out. Votes: 0

My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace. Votes: 0

If comics are modern mythology, then black participation and representation is crucial. Votes: 0

The podcast movement was really a creative survival mechanism for standup comics. Votes: 0

I still read newspaper comics, but without much hope for their future. Votes: 0

Jazz, rock and roll, movies and comics are the culture of America. Votes: 0

Hanging out with comics, all they did was make fun of me. Votes: 0

I, for example, am a pompous asshole, but my comics are genius! Votes: 0

I'm not a big fan of the comics competing against each other. Votes: 0

Read comics. All comics. And then cut them open to steal their power. Votes: 0

I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late. Votes: 0

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary. Votes: 0

I never thought of doing anything but comics, except maybe being a pilot. Votes: 0

I read the comics long before I was ever involved with the films. Votes: 0

I went to church irregularly and was mostly reading comics in the pew. Votes: 0

While many comics have a secret persona, I fundamentally want to be myself. Votes: 0

All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form. Votes: 0

I just really respond to comics. I find it a really exciting medium. Votes: 0

The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests. Votes: 0

That's what I really wanted to do when I was 16, be in comics! Votes: 0

I was a fan of the 'Dredd' comics when I was a teenager. Votes: 0

I never really read comics. I bought them, and I would draw them. Votes: 0

I think comics have far more potential than a lot of people realize. Votes: 0

I love drawing what the character is feeling, in my comics, with no dialogue. Votes: 0

Well, don't tell Steve Niles but I just don't think horror works in comics. Votes: 0

Girls have always read comics. There's nothing intrinsically masculine about telling stories with pictures. Votes: 0

Around comics, I've always been known for, oh, that's not dirty, this is dirty. Votes: 0

In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over. Votes: 0

In academia in general, there's this push toward using comics as an educational tool. Votes: 0

If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them. Votes: 0

I think theres too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques. Votes: 0

I wanted something where I could explore comics and music at the same time. Votes: 0

I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me. Votes: 0

My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics. Votes: 0

I love comics, but I'd rather cut off my thumbs than do nothing but. Votes: 0

I was a Marvel guy. I started reading comics when I was a kid. Votes: 0

I didn't know the Green Lantern comics at all. I was a Superman reader. Votes: 0

I'm a comic geek, I love playing video games and I love reading comics. Votes: 0

It's always fun when you see different comics at different weights or with different hair. Votes: 0

comedians are people who say funny things, and comics are people who say things funny. Votes: 0

There's Dick Van Dyke and John Ritter, the two greatest physical comics of our generation. Votes: 0

I have to say, self-servingly, I downloaded my own comics. I downloaded 'Batman: Hush.' Votes: 0

Compared to what some of the young comics use for material today, I'm a priest. Votes: 0

It's definitely not the character who it is in the comics, I'll say that much. Votes: 0

I didn't read comics as a kid - though, obviously, I've read a lot since. Votes: 0

I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre. Votes: 0

The comics were not only stories to enjoy; for me they were drawings that possessed me. Votes: 0

As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well. Votes: 0

I hate when I get asked, 'What's it like to be a woman in comics?' Votes: 0

I think it might surprise the average person how angry people can get over the comics. Votes: 0

There's 54 years of X-Men comics by now, so there are a lot of characters to explore. Votes: 0

There are really funny alternative comics and really funny straight comics who write and perform traditionally. Votes: 0

It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing. Votes: 0

I've done illustration on the side. But other than that, comics have been my main things. Votes: 0

I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page. Votes: 0

I think comics overall would be better. I think there's a tremendous potential to be tapped. Votes: 0

I'm basically stubborn. If anyone disapproved of my being influenced by comics, I simply ignored them. Votes: 0

Comic-Con is definitely grown from just being about comics to being about all forms of media. Votes: 0

I never read comics as a kid. I guess I was lazy and watched cartoons instead. Votes: 0

I grew up on comics and cartoons. So, as an adult, I like comics and cartoons. Votes: 0

Lots of comics try stuff out all year round, which is very sensible - I don't. Votes: 0

I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know? Votes: 0

At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics. Votes: 0

It's cool if people want to make movies of stuff, but I'm really interested in the comics. Votes: 0

Everything you see that makes you think about the comics, I think you should read into it. Votes: 0

I'm a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me. Votes: 0

It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career. Votes: 0

Once comics become your life, you have to make decisions on what you spend your time on. Votes: 0

In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special. Votes: 0

Maybe the best comics are written by people who really are at ease in the comic world. Votes: 0

Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the '70s Votes: 0

I'm a fan myself, so I try to write the kind of comics I want to read. Votes: 0

I never read comics growing up. I didn't have money and I don't like to touch paper. Votes: 0

Like a lot of young people who wanted to be artists, comics were a gateway for me. Votes: 0

As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book. Votes: 0

I'm in awe of comics that do things that I can't do, or haven't tried doing yet. Votes: 0

It's important to continue to change and evolve in the way that the comics change and evolve. Votes: 0

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube Votes: 0

Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully. Votes: 0

I've loved comics since I was a kid, collected them, I've always dreamed of being involved in comics. Votes: 0

I always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds. Votes: 0

There's the shared imagery between hip-hop and comics, with some producers and emcees taking on super hero personas. Votes: 0

I'm wildly different than Maria Bamford or Sarah Silverman, and might be more similar to some male comics. Votes: 0

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment. Votes: 0

But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube. Votes: 0

Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books. Votes: 0

I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw. Votes: 0

The reason I started to do comics for kids, the real reason is because it worked for me. Votes: 0

I was told I make intelligent comics, and then I made a comic about a horse that pooped. Votes: 0

Leslie Stein's comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders. Votes: 0

I think the best thing I learned from drawing comics is that it's a great exercise in concision. Votes: 0

I love hearing people who are smarter than me talk about my comics. It makes me feel smarter. Votes: 0

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of. Votes: 0

I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be. Votes: 0

There's something about the intimacy of comics that gives you a false bravado; you don't always consider the consequences. Votes: 0

I never go perform somewhere alone. I've done that since day one. I've always taken other comics with me. Votes: 0

You couldn't have small, dying children in a movie without really bringing everyone down, but you can in comics. Votes: 0

To the folks asking how they can become a comics writer if Marvel doesn't accept submissions... YOU WRITE COMICS!! Votes: 0

The funniest jokes you know aren't from comics but relatives, friends - from your life. That's the funniest stuff. Votes: 0

Not everyone reads comics, although most people know the major superheroes, but the majority of people play video games. Votes: 0

I'm an avid reader. Novels, non-fiction, comics, it doesn't matter. Best way in the world to feed your head. Votes: 0

I have always loved Las Vegas. It's a traditional place for lounge comics to perform, and I love that. Votes: 0

In the comics, Supergirl is quite, um, buxom...so I hope people won't come to the film expecting that. Votes: 0

Really, though, I just want to make the kind of comics I wouldn't be embarrassed to read in public. Votes: 0

I never liked my own species. On why so many of his comics are about animals, in an interview. Votes: 0

When anything doesn't hit with a huge laugh, as comics, it feels like, Oh no, oh no, we're sinking. Votes: 0

People have a hard time reading my comics. I think I leave things out, but I feel you should. Votes: 0

One of the things about comics is people can linger on images and words as long as they want. Votes: 0

I felt the comics grew because they became the common man's literature, the common man's art, the common man's publishing. Votes: 0

That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination. Votes: 0

We relate comics to the main super-heroes, but it's a great medium through which all sorts of stories are told. Votes: 0

The ancestors of printed comics drew, painted and carved their time-paths from beginning to end, without interruption, ... the infinite canvas. Votes: 0

In comedy timing is everything, but Betty White is the rarest of comics who seems to have mastered time itself. Votes: 0

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society. Votes: 0

After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there's no better place for new ideas than comics. Votes: 0

Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level. Votes: 0

Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down. Votes: 0

I loved underground comics and psychedelic art. I did like some supernatural horror, but mainly fantasy. I was into escapism. Votes: 0

I'm very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry. Votes: 0

I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics. Votes: 0

I wasn't as big a comic book aficionado as some of my friends, but I definitely had some Batman comics. Votes: 0

I have to confess I'm not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form. Votes: 0

If a joke is too hard to visualize, I tell the young comics, then what the hell good is it? Votes: 0

And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say Votes: 0

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr. Votes: 0

The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of. Votes: 0

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s. Votes: 0

It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much. Votes: 0

I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader. Votes: 0

I love comics and have since I was a kid. That is what gave me the idea to create my own. Votes: 0

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are. Votes: 0

I would love to learn archery. Unfortunately I'm too busy writing and drawing ten thousand comics a month. Maybe one day! Votes: 0

I like collecting comics, I like buying comics, I like looking at comics, but I also read comics on digital readers. Votes: 0

For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States Votes: 0

What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener. Votes: 0

I've seen other comics, with great pleasure, watching their own specials, and I don't know how or why they do it. Votes: 0

Most comics worship music on some level. It's more rock-n-roll to get up there for an hour and make people laugh. Votes: 0

I was into comics because these were my real male role models, even though at the time, I didn't know it. Votes: 0

The main way I start to allocate color is that it comes from the comics. That's where it all starts from. Votes: 0

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage. Votes: 0

Some novel lovers have no interest in comics, and some comics fans would never take the time to read a novel. Votes: 0

I'm just an actor who happened to love these [Marvel] comics when I was a kid, and got to rediscover them. Votes: 0

I've always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history. Votes: 0

For a lot of arcane shipping reasons, new comics, even digital ones, have a long history of only being released on Wednesdays. Votes: 0

Tintin comics evoke Bermuda, where my parents doled out comics for good behavior and my grandmother taught me how to shuffle cards. Votes: 0

I think that superhero comics in particular are really useful for talking about big emotions and feelings, and personifying and concretizing symbols. Votes: 0

Games are considered to be in the sub-culture category, coming under movies, coming under manga or comics or animation, especially in Japan. Votes: 0

I collected X-Men, Spider-Man, and Daredevil comics. I definitely had a few Captain America comics lying around in those protective plastic baggies. Votes: 0

I will say that I'm proud of my connection to DC comics because they are absolutely fabulous in sending reprint royalty checks. Votes: 0

Some people are worried about the future of comics and some people are busy building it. That latter group are my heroes. Votes: 0

There's a Marvel superhero called Black Bolt & his real name is Blackagar Boltagon & that really tells you a lot about superhero comics. Votes: 0

I remember the dark days when, thanks to 1966's 'Batman' with Adam West, comics were considered the ugly stepchild of popular culture. Votes: 0

I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age. Votes: 0

Bring you comics in bed, scrape the mold off the bread, and serve you French toast again. Okay, I still get stoned. Votes: 0

People think I have an interest in comics, but I'm only interested in comics from the '40s, like 'Donald Duck' comics. Votes: 0

I wouldn't necessarily have been making books about how to make comics if I'd really felt I knew how to make comics. Votes: 0

Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them. Votes: 0

These days, you don't just break into comics once. You have to break in again and again after each job is finished. Votes: 0

The comics I've talked to have varied styles as stand-ups, but the throughline is that it's the most intense thing they've ever done. Votes: 0

The anomaly is that, as a publishing venture, comics are not doing very well. As a venture that supplies other media, they're incredible. Votes: 0

Comedy is a blood sport. It flays the truth and spurts twisted logic. In America, people become comics because we don't have bullfighting. Votes: 0

I knew that I always wanted to keep making music, but I knew that comics needed to be a part of my life. Votes: 0

When you combine the great stories from the comics with the action and visual excitement of the movies, it doesn't get any better! Votes: 0

You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss Whedon. Votes: 0

I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in Japanese manga and anime. Votes: 0

A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I'm being too serious. Votes: 0

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw. Votes: 0

TV and comics and movies are what you think about when you think about geek, but people can be a geek about anything. Votes: 0

If you look at Stan Lee and the Marvel comics, yes, there's a lot of awesome, serious and dramatic action that takes place. Votes: 0

I read comics and I did science, and never really put them together until I accidentally found myself in the middle of one. Votes: 0

Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard. Votes: 0

When you first hear the name 'Max Irons,' you'd be forgiven for assuming that Marvel comics has come up with a new superhero. Votes: 0

The people who worked in comics were terrific guys. I had a good association with them, and I enjoyed comics for that very reason. Votes: 0

I minored in creative writing in college, and I've played with the idea of doing something more hybrid, but comics are my first love. Votes: 0

It's just an easy catchall to describe a style because there are a lot of alternative comics who are completely different from each other. Votes: 0

The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand. Votes: 0

I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction. Votes: 0

And that's why people read comics, to get away from the way life works, which is quite cruel and unheroic and ends in death. Votes: 0

I'd been a fanatic of movies since I was a wee lad, so I got into the films before I got into the comics. Votes: 0

The plan was that I was going to do comics, and then the music just cam up in my life and was a detour. Votes: 0

Superman has been my favorite character since I was six years old, and I have more comics featuring Superman than any other single character. Votes: 0

I read a lot and fell in love with comics and science fiction. I even self-published some of my comics when I was 16 or 17. Votes: 0

I have two favorites: Reading Kierkegaard while listening to Mozart's Piano Concerto 9 in E Flat Major, and reading early Bazooka Joe comics in Hebrew. Votes: 0

One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were definitely an outlet for us. Votes: 0

I've always hated superheroes. I cannot stand them. I love Norse mythology, but I hate superheroes. They ruined movies, then comics, and now games. Votes: 0

I do get the comics online I guess but it's such a pain. I'd rather just get them in the paper and read them. Votes: 0

I grew up reading a lot of superhero comics, so it's really fun to take a shot at one myself and see what happens. Votes: 0

I guess my journey with comics began with stuff like Spider-Man and Batman. I started off with mainstream superhero stuff, which I've never abandoned. Votes: 0

I have yet to see one of those Comedy Central shows with multiple standup comics that doesn't include someone the size of the Hindenburg. Votes: 0

All comics want to be musicians. There's a part of me that wants to be a serious musician. I love songs about heartache and heartbreak. Votes: 0

The difference between graphic novels and web comics is even greater than graphic novels and story boarding. Web comics really is a legitimately separate genre. Votes: 0

I think women are vital to the future of the superhero comics and the entire industry - as creators, as editors, as consumers, as retailers. Votes: 0

So I'm happiest when I'm working with artists and writers, and involved in stories, whether we're talking about animation or movies or comics or television. Votes: 0

I've never done anything half-heartedly. It's the reason my comics did well. It's the reason my comics were drawn well. I can't do anything bad. Votes: 0

I wanted to create comics as soon as a I learned humans were behind them, that they were not natural phenomena like trees and boulders. Votes: 0

I was a big 'MAD Magazine' fan when I was a kid, and I read a lot of horror comics - I illustrated as well. Votes: 0

There's no rap against comics that isn't true. They were sexist, they were racist, you name it - and they kind of gloried in that. Votes: 0

I had a publisher who felt comics were just for little kiddies, so he never wanted me to use words of more than two syllables. Votes: 0

I live in my own bubble. I was looking for an audience that wouldn't necessarily be looking for escapism when they came to my comics. Votes: 0

When I was writing songs, I always thought I'd make more of a career out of the drawings, the comics even more than the music. Votes: 0

I always drew. I don't remember a time when I didn't draw. And I actually drew comics from the age of maybe ten through twelve. Votes: 0

I was a Charles Schulz kind of guy. I didn't read comics books. The Warner Bros. guys were great - Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng. Votes: 0

I enjoy the fact that we have these mobile comics now, which are sort of a cross between a comic book and an animated cartoon. Votes: 0

The main difference between illustration and comics is that comics are much, much more work. Every comics page is the equivalent of six to nine illustrations. Votes: 0

Many in the creative professions were nerds in their pasts because they spent so long reading comics and using their imaginations when they were growing up. Votes: 0

I always had more allergies toward the superhero comics than the others. I thought those were aimed more toward the people who would beat me up. Votes: 0

Whether it be in comics, games or film, you can trace the art direction and influences back to some earlier, real-life historic period or artistic movement. Votes: 0

I love the interplay between words and pictures. I love the fact that in comics, your pictures are acting like words, presenting themselves to be read. Votes: 0

I hate stand-up comics; I think funny is something you are, not something you desperately try to be in front of a roomful of obnoxious people. Votes: 0

I guess I try to find the humor by juxtaposing deeper themes in literature with what people perceive as being lighter, disposable children's fare in comics. Votes: 0

I was not a giant comic book fan as a kid, but to the extent that I did read comics, Spider-Man was always my favorite guy. Votes: 0

When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject. Votes: 0

I collect Wonder Woman - from comics to paraphernalia, and I even have a tattoo of her on my back. I'm a huge Wonder Woman fan! Votes: 0

There's a creative freedom to comics, and a fulfillment I get out of panel layouts and storytelling that is hard for me to get anywhere else. Votes: 0

I tend to like writing long stories in comics. I worked on 'Flash,' 'Teen Titans' and 'JSA' for years. I always like diving into characters. Votes: 0

There were never that many women stand-up comics in the past because the power to make people laugh is also a power that gets people upset. Votes: 0

The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like Vagabond by Takehiko Inoue. Votes: 0

When you open box after box of old comics and they're ALL "Archie," you have suffered a trauma from which it is difficult to ever recover. Votes: 0

Because we're comics and we pass each other on campus, we know of each other, and a lot of the time there's a mutual respect there. Votes: 0

My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, where they are safe. Votes: 0

My first work in comics had an Adult theme and I had to create a nom du plume to separate that work and my Children's entertainment. Votes: 0

I'm a graphic-novel guy. I can't handle the wait for monthly or bi-monthly comics; I need the story finished so I can buy the whole thing. Votes: 0

I've found nothing but support and generosity from older comics. I think comedians are a lot nicer than the stigma is, at least from my experience. Votes: 0

One of the things that appealed to me most about comics was that you can pick the ones you like and build your own personal pantheon. Votes: 0

I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes. I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes. Votes: 0

I had a few comics, but I was by no means a huge aficionado. I was more of a 'Mad Magazine,' 'Calvin & Hobbes' sort of nerd. Votes: 0

That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work. Votes: 0

I started thinking about how rain is depicted in illustrations. In comics that use gouache or watercolor, they use light blue, so I started using that color. Votes: 0

What is there to say about ChUC other than it's a comedy show done the right way in the right space. Fantastic comics, welcoming audience. Always great. Votes: 0

I never think there's any competition between films. I root for everybody's films. I especially have a fond place in my heart for graphic novels and comics. Votes: 0

Black comics, they only watch Black comedians. You're a comedian; you're not just a Black comedian. You're a comedian. I try to get that through to everybody. Votes: 0

I love getting on You Tube to look at the old comics. I am in my element seeing guys like Jack Benny and Phil Silvers give interviews. Votes: 0

The development of the comedy club industry destroyed the uniqueness and intimacy of the profession but it also created jobs for comics and bred some great performers. Votes: 0

Motion comics take the underlying physical book material and enhance or modify it slightly enough to make it unique and, we think, best-suited for a digital environment. Votes: 0

In the history of comics and movies and music too, it's always when things are at their bottomed-out, either creatively or financially, there's more chance-taking going on. Votes: 0

I think it's the fact that I do something different and that I actually have some success with it. That bothers a lot of people... especially comics. Votes: 0

We like to make the Marvel comics films because they're fun. Families can go see them together. They're entertaining. They aspire to inspire, and that is cool. Votes: 0

Things improved a little bit in the '80s; there was kind of a revival of alternative comics, but then they went downhill in the '90s. Votes: 0

I am into belly dancing. I used to only hang with comics. Now I have friends who are dancers, and my whole house has a harem feel. Votes: 0

I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff. Votes: 0

Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the dynamic you find in comics. Votes: 0

I think they [Judy Blume comics] are so different from the Dr. Strange ones are so different from the other, from the other comics which is nice. Votes: 0

What I love about WonderCon is that, while the focus is on the comics, it's also a celebration of games and movies and all the ancillary media. Votes: 0

There's a lot of guy comics who I think are funny, but I generally am more excited about a special or a show where there are females. Votes: 0

My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunchier the better. We love Eddie Izzard. Votes: 0

One of my comics is read by more people - around 70,000 - than will see my entire run at Manhattan Theater Club. That puts things in perspective. Votes: 0

The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don't know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time. Votes: 0

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing Votes: 0

When I was a kid, I read comics. But when I saw how funny it was, and how wonderfully absurd, I said, "You know, I gotta do this." Votes: 0

Because making movies is such an expensive endeavor, other media such as books and comics have long been a more feasible way to experiment with truly new ideas. Votes: 0

I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one. Votes: 0

Certainly, my many years working in the comics industry, creating products that I do not own, has made me rather fierce on the subject of giving up rights. Votes: 0

I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't understand their comedy or their sensibility. Votes: 0

Some comics really thrive on being disrespectful, especially toward women, and it's somehow understood as edgy, but I'm the opposite. I've never liked curse words for that reason. Votes: 0

A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do. Votes: 0

There are very few comics that understand about exciting the crowd, and that's what I always prided myself on: giving a more confident macho attitude towards delivering material. Votes: 0

I love comics. All I've been doing is reading every day, sitting in the house. Because I've not been feeling too good, so I've been reading and reading. Votes: 0

The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they didn't get - and they left. Votes: 0

When you get into making movies, then the physical mundane reality of life must be presented. But in comics you can jack it up and work in shorthand. Votes: 0

Today's comics use four-letter words as a shortcut to thinking. They're shooting for that big laugh and it becomes a panic thing, using four-letter words to shock people. Votes: 0

I think that all comics or humorists, or whatever we are, ask questions. That's what we're supposed to do. But I not only ask the questions, I offer solutions. Votes: 0

After 'Blankets,' I was sick of drawing myself and doing this autobiographical, mundane, Midwestern sort of comics. I wanted to create something bigger than myself and outside myself. Votes: 0

A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.' Votes: 0

In the world of late-night comics, Letterman made us feel any hometown boy from Indianapolis could poke fun at celebrities and politicians and do it right to their faces. Votes: 0

Your stage persona is usually a version of yourself, to varying degrees. Some folks do a full-on character, so that's different. But most comics do some version of themselves. Votes: 0

I've done so many superhero comics, and I've actually just been really excited about sci-fi, and Chrononauts and Starlight were both sci-fi, which I had a great time doing. Votes: 0

With comics, you always talk about a big break, but there are a lot of big breaks in your life and not one of them makes a big difference. Votes: 0

The German and the Brazilian market is small. When we went to France they know a lot more, than just the American comics. The audience there was much different. Votes: 0

Growing up in Malaysia and England, there wasn't an obvious route into the comics world, so my creative energy went into theatre and prose and then movies and TV. Votes: 0

I didn't read comics, growing up. I watched a lot of movies, and those were my comic books. And then, my exposure really increased by becoming affiliated with Spider-Man. Votes: 0

The fundament of a superhero is the guy in tights saving innocent people from bad things. It's amazing how infrequently that seems to happen in superhero comics these days. Votes: 0

There's a lot of comics writers out there whose work I appreciate and who are nice guys. I really want to work with guys I really respect and enjoy. Votes: 0

I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in. Votes: 0

My monsters were lovable monsters. I gave them names - some were evil and some were good. They made sales, and that's always been my prime object in comics. Votes: 0

In general, I feel so much of pop culture is set in the generic big city, particularly comics. I feel like there are so many other stories to tell. Votes: 0

Don't be a jerk to other comics and don't let the business beat you down, stay positive and if you work your ass off you're going to get somewhere. Votes: 0

Mike Holmes is insanely talented and his work bristles with the kind of humanity and insight that is rare in comics – or in humans, for that matter. Votes: 0

I went to art school, and that's how I got the internship, and then I started a band. But I always missed comics, I always wanted to do them. Votes: 0

We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement. Votes: 0

Bad taste is not illegal. I always got my first laughs as a kid by saying inappropriate things. That's always how we're going to get our laughs as comics. Votes: 0

I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in Votes: 0

Too many comics today ramble. By the time they get to the punch line, the audience has either gone to sleep, gone to the bathroom or gone to bed. Votes: 0

I grew up reading comics. I was primarily an 'X-Men' fan, but I definitely dressed up as Spider-Man for Halloween when I was, like, 12 years old. Maybe younger than that. Votes: 0

When I get into collecting things, I get a little obsessive. Which is why when I start buying comics, I buy way too many, and I have to stop myself. Votes: 0

When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didn't introduce myself as an author, but only as a designer. Votes: 0

I wasn't terribly aware of Catwoman. She was a DC comics character and as a kid, I wasn't terribly fond of the DC comics characters. I was a Marvel boy. Votes: 0

I hated teenagers in comics because they were always sidekicks. And I always felt if I were a superhero, there's no way I'd pal around with some teenager, you know. Votes: 0

There's a punk rock quality to Peter Parker, that I identified with when I read the comics [Spider-Man], and that I really liked. He has this chip on his shoulder. Votes: 0

If you want to draw comics, you really have to love to draw, as you will be spending many hours sitting down with a pencil or pen in your hand. Votes: 0

I put my comics that are really valuable into regular mylar because I like to look at them. Once they're in those clam shell boxes, they're impossible to open up. Votes: 0

When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved... we didn't have anyone standing over us. Votes: 0

When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didnt introduce myself as an author, but only as a designer. Votes: 0

If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature... that's what takes a long time to learn. Votes: 0

They are not testing comics for drugs. If our job is dependent on that, there would be three working comics in the country, and two of them would have puppets. Votes: 0

I like learning things, and I like that writing comics is an excuse to look into new stuff and research and learn new things and hopefully put them in books. Votes: 0

So much of comics are dictated by characters talking to one another - or in focused spaces where 'the camera' has to stay in pretty close on what's going on. Votes: 0

There's so much I want to do. I love emotions, I love drama, I love comedy and I also want to take action up to another level, I love comics. Votes: 0

I have always loved horror very much. I used to write stories for DC's House of Mystery. It was one of my first jobs writing for comics, and I loved it. Votes: 0

One of the great things about being involved with comics is that those people are devoted to their characters, writers and artists. The average comic reader isn't casual about their habit. Votes: 0

Someone told me that there's a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lantern comics, Tomar Re was the envoy to Krypton. That was fascinating to me. Votes: 0

I was very influenced by comics. The drawing style, definitely, I was interested in. My style of drawing is largely a comic style, but it's also much more obvious than comics. Votes: 0

I really believe in the power of comics as an educational thing, even ones as silly as mine, because they're a gateway to the actual thing. They're like an easy entrance. Votes: 0

Us comics guys tend to get really good at the things we draw a lot. I'm good at creepy old forests, Victorian houses, underground goblin cities, and beautiful but creepy fairies. Votes: 0

My father was very funny, so I grew up with humor in the house. And I was always really attracted to comedies on TV. I was always really attracted to comics. Votes: 0

When I was a kid, I read many more Marvel comics than I did DC. As I got older, in high school and then in college, I started reading more DC. Votes: 0

In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in. Votes: 0

I like making comics and animation because it takes such a long time. I'm not a runner of the 100 meter. I like marathons. The longer it takes, the better I feel. Votes: 0

My perfect night would be going out to an awesome restaurant, then heading over to the Comedy Cellar to hang out with other comics, drinking beers and making fun of each other. Votes: 0

When I started out, some women comics were jealous of other women comics, thinking, "If she gets "The Tonight Show," I can't." My philosophy always was, "If she did, I can too." Votes: 0

I'm an attorney when I'm not writing comics, and have been for years. That's a side of my life I don't always associate with pure creativity, but it's all worked out nicely. Votes: 0

Nobody ever asked me to do anything. Nobody knew what to do. When comics were brand new, nobody knew what kind of comics to make. So you were mostly on your own. Votes: 0

We thought everybody read comics. We didn't know we were weird. We didn't know people that collected comics were strange. It was as normal as listening to rock music on the radio. Votes: 0

Talking about my personal life onstage, I've realized I'm not one of those comics who can do that. I can allude to it but I don't want to be a confessional performer... Votes: 0

There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic. Votes: 0

There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future. Votes: 0

We were always drawing comics as kids. My brother Charles made me draw comics. I was very much under his domination. He was actually a much stronger artistic visionary than I was. Votes: 0

I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid. Votes: 0

I'm excited for the new crop of gay comics who have never been closeted, who never thought that they needed to put on a dress to tell a joke, and it's exciting. Votes: 0

I tried to get into comics initially after I graduated Clemson in 1994. I spent a year trying to get in, and I quit reading books because not getting in made me sad. Votes: 0

There's two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither one works. Will Rogers The reason that there are so few women comics is that so few women can bear being laughed at. Votes: 0

I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, you don't necessarily pick up on it when you're an adult. Votes: 0

I don't really read any comics, but when I got casted on the show, I starting reading 'The Walking Dead' comics. I felt like I needed a better idea of the character. Votes: 0

I'd forgotten how challenging comics can be until I started working on Ropes. Yes, you're restricted by the boundaries of the page, but we all work within technical limitations of some kind. Votes: 0

The problem for me is that 'Watchmen,' one of the great comics of all time, is a look at superheroes that has gone beyond the concept of or necessity for superheroes. Votes: 0

A lot of the other things in my life like making music, you know that's a very collaborative thing so I work on comics because it's not something that's a solo activity. Votes: 0

If a good cartoonist can make a living making his comics, he'll continue to do that; the lesser insincere cartoonist that gets a lot of press will fall by the wayside eventually. Votes: 0

I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing. Votes: 0

I think that comics can do things movies can't and vice versa. In my opinion, you only expose their weaknesses if you try too hard at making one exactly like the other. Votes: 0

The one thing you don't want to be is a sucky clean comic. I hate sucky clean comics! It's like Christian rock, bro. I'd rather listen to gospel and Christian rock. That's cheating! Votes: 0

I was born in Detroit. I never really saw myself working in comics, I just fell into it. But it's been one of the best things to happen to a kid from Detroit. Votes: 0

I'd say, don't listen to what anyone says: you're good. Go put your anorak on. Get your thick bottle-top specs. Draw your little cartoons and your comics and keep writing to the BBC. Votes: 0

I've always wanted to write comic books, my earliest memories are of waiting for Dad to come home from work, and, secreted in his lawyer's leather briefcase, would be comics from the store. Votes: 0

My father brought me my first stack of comics, when I was seven years old and in the hospital. I was not a well child. And that's where my love for comics began. Votes: 0

I love creator-owned comics. Most of my favorite books these days are creator-owned, from stuff DC publishes, like 'Fables,' to books like 'Saga,' 'Fatale,' 'Hellboy,' and 'Courtney Crumrin.' Votes: 0

When we usually think of fears, in comics or in films, it's most often fears on a relatively superficial level: fear of murderous insects, of ghosts, of zombies, or even fear of dying. Votes: 0

It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sing and you could dance, but you couldn't stand flat-footed and talk; that was a no-no. Votes: 0

Some comics don't like it when people talk during the set, and it does get a little bit annoying after awhile, but I basically let people dictate what jokes I'm going to do. Votes: 0

Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel. Votes: 0

I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories. Votes: 0

I've learned a heck of a lot this way [making Dark Tower comics]. I've also learned a lot from the editors at Marvel, who are always an equal part in the creative team. Votes: 0

My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earliest memories are of reading the family paper and heading straight for the comics insert. Votes: 0

Few if any teenagers can relate to getting up for school and finding famous comics like Pryor and Williams hanging out in your living room after a hard night of partying. But that's Hollywood. Votes: 0

I always thought Johnny Carson was just brilliant, and I used to watch him and all the comics that would be on the show every night - and I'd dream about it being me. Votes: 0

Self-publishing is still my basic recommendation to anyone wanting to do comics. Do it. Do it until you get good. Do it after you get good. It's good for your spirit as a creator. Votes: 0

I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job. Votes: 0

I think comics should test people, I think it's our job to go too far. That way we know as a society what too far is. Where else are you going to hear it? Votes: 0

When I was a school kid I used to read lots of comics. This started me on drawing, I would make my own comics about my teddy bear whose name happened to be Ted. Votes: 0

In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about it, and I think you had comics that were comics. Votes: 0

The reason I love comics more than anything else is that the longest story will be just a few pages. With a novel, it takes so many pages to get to one thing happening. Votes: 0

I wanted to reinvent horror comics. I felt like it was my mission to open people's eyes to the fact that horror comics could be so much more than the popular perception of them. Votes: 0

I remember being in a comic shop with my son, with my ten year-old son and he put his hand over my eyes. He was embarrassed about me seeing the comics at Forbidden Planet. Votes: 0

I'm 44 now and have been working in comics for most of my adult life. I've been blessed to have had the career that I've had and worked with the many awesome creators I have. Votes: 0

Ever since I'm done with Zim everyone thinks that I'm going to go back to comics. I've been flooded with emails asking me if I'm working on the new Johnny over and over again. Votes: 0

I actually very rarely see comedy myself, and although I admire the work of some comics, it does come from all over, so I'll get a charge out of some fiction writers and poets. Votes: 0

I'm in a comic book now. That was cool. That's something that I'm still sorta reeling about, 'cause I read comics as a kid. Someone drew me, and actually did a pretty good job! Votes: 0

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line. Votes: 0

So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move. Votes: 0

To look back and know that I have had a pivotal role in the development of comics is something I'm very proud of, although it's not something I think about unless someone brings it up. Votes: 0

I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics. Votes: 0

I could go through a lot of my old emails from when I first started doing comics. Back then the lowest age of fans was like 15 or 16 up to people in their 20's and 30's. Votes: 0

I've been reading Ed Brubaker comics since the first appearance of Ed Brubaker comics and every single time he announces a new title I mutter to myself: ugh! I wish I would've thought of that! Votes: 0