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Quotes About Comics

The relationship between Aquaman and Aqualad should be investigated.
~ Seth MacFarlane
The comedians I liked were Bill Cosby and Steven Wright, like just always as a comedic actor. I always liked Gary Larson, who's really funny for a cartoonist, obviously.
~ Demetri Martin
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.
~ Denise Mina
But one of my absolutely favorite things to do is go to comic book stores on the weekends. I'm a huge comic book nerd.
~ Paige Spiranac
When I was little, I used to get a comic - 'Cheeky Weekly' - which was a weekly comic whose main character was Cheeky. I used to get 'Roy of the Rovers,' too.
~ Lee Mack
I had always been fascinated by comics, but it had taken me several weeks to make up my mind to buy 'Watchmen'; for someone on a publisher's assistant's salary, it was some quite unheard-of sum of money.
~ Susanna Clarke
Reading books might itself be a bit weird, but obviously okay, since books were part of school, and doing well in school was clearly a good thing. But comics were more like candy, just flashy wrappers without any nourishment. Cheap thrills.
~ Michael Dirda
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.
~ Gilbert Hernandez
'The Flash' comics are visually amazing and so well done. I wish I had been introduced to them when I was growing up.
~ Keiynan Lonsdale
I never liked working on editorial-driven comics. I just didn't see what was the point. They don't pay well enough for me to write other people's ideas.
~ Brian K. Vaughan
I loved the idea that I had an alter-ego but that my true identity was very well known and very much on the surface. I was the only one who didn't know who Stardust really was. So it was very much tied to comics - everything I've done. I did a whole run where I'd wear a face mask when I was on SmackDown, and that was based on Dr. Doom.
~ Cody Rhodes
Marvel Comics has always been a place where I felt at home. It has been a very important part of my life and has always been a wellspring of creative and relevant ideas.
~ Jeff Lindsay
The important information you need at the beginning of an issue. Like way they did the old Frank Miller Daredevil issues in the first five pages he always had to state his origins and how he got his powers.
~ Robert Kirkman
Seth Rogen told me to read 'Preacher,' and 'Preacher' was amazing.
~ Michael Pena
I have nothing wrong with comics and writers poking fun at the President, as long as it's funny. When it's the same retread jokes with predictable punchlines, that's when it's offensive.
~ Lisa Kennedy Montgomery
When I first came to comics, it was, like, dudes. The feeling, the air, the presence is overwhelmingly male.
~ Marjorie Liu
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.
~ Gene Luen Yang
I wouldn't ever presume to say that I am a comic book fan.
~ Ray Stevenson
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!
~ Rutina Wesley
Comics and animation have some of the deepest stories I've ever seen.
~ Marie Lu
I definitely was a big comic collector as a kid.
~ J. August Richards
I think there are certain questions that get asked in comics over and over again, and people want definitive answers, but I feel like there shouldn't be definitive answers.
~ Greg Rucka
Some comics are made to be displayed digitally, and it doesn't degrade them.
~ Noelle Stevenson
When I was a kid, I desperately wanted more background information on especially cartoonists.
~ Bryan Lee O'Malley