Quotes About Comics

Comics writing is for your artist. It's not for the general reader; it's for the artist. So I love writing scripts for artists.

I knew I wanted to do comics, but I wasn't sure what they were about or what I wanted them to be about.

I didn't get into comics until college, and it was sort of an accident.

The first work I ever did in comics was for Archie Comics, and I didn't do that very long because I did other stuff.

I think when it comes to comics, I've been a lifelong comic book fan.

Comics are a wonderful form. You can do so much with it.

Growing up, I didn't really read a lot of comics; we didn't really have the money to get them. But I grew up a universal fan of fantasy and sci-fi and watching a lot of TV. There's always this question of 'Are you a fan of sci-fi or fantasy?' But can't you be a fan of both? We love everything fantasy, my wife and I.

I've collected comics for many, many years, but I've usually collected older ones for whatever reason.

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

The first comic book I ever read was an issue of 'Legion of Super-Heroes' where the earth was surrounded by all of these chains. I remember the cover; I got it at a birthday party.

I'm not sure comics sustain mortgage, and the house, and three kids.

I've always been a Marvel fan. As a kid, I would pick up a two-foot stack of comics and read them in the back of my dad's car on long journeys across the States. That's how I used to make friends - I'd meet up with other kids, and we'd swap comics.

I was one of those goofy kids whose year narrowed down to focus on Christmas from about September on. I guess I was like Ralphie in 'A Christmas Story,' in that I would get swept up into the anticipation of the holiday, watching the lights go up, hearing the songs in the stores, getting special Christmas issues of comics and all that.

My brother and I were really into baseball cards, and it seemed like an easy switch to jump over to comics.

By and large, I think that comics work seriously hard. Many have other jobs as well, plus you never really switch off, so you're always working.

I don't think it's a coincidence that comic books appeal so strongly to children. Not that it negates any of their power for adults, but there is something about comics that makes them a perfect storytelling system for children.

Before reading about all of the world's messes, I need to be in a good place, soothed and comforted. Prepared. So I read the comics first.

You're gonna be like Aquaman?" she asked. "Get the fish to fight for you?" "Thanks," Percy said. "I haven't heard enough Aquaman jokes for one lifetime.

Simon's walls were covered in what looked like pages ripped from a comic book, but when I squinted, I realized they were hand drawn. Some were black-and-white, but most were in full color, everything from character sketches to splash panels to full pages, done in a style that wasn't quite manga, wasn't quite comic book.

At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.

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.

Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.

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.

I did comics on the Internet because it was free, and if I had made printed copies, I wouldn't have known what to do with them. But I knew how to make a website when most people didn't, and back then, that was enough!