Quotes About Comics

The best moments in comics come from a primal image that captures the emotion and the conflict. What you add are the pieces that get you to the point and what happens next.

I have memories of reading comics when I was in primary school, but that's about it.

Print and digital comics will always coexist.

DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it.

I'll still do print comics; as long as there's a market, I'll still be there. I just have a hard time believing that's the future.

I love print comics.

Comics are printed on paper, which is expensive, making it tough to stay in business.

In earlier comics, my only priority was telling a joke in the last panel, but now I try to make every panel as interesting as possible, and that normally means at least a li'l joke there.

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.

I'll be on the street and go up to people - 'Have you read a comic book before? Well, here's one.' You've got your pro-life people, your pro-choice people, your feminists. I'm a comicbooks activist.

I'm always trying to find the next comedian that just gives me something a little funny to combine with all of the depressing news that I'm processing.

The people that are running the bulk of the comic shops in North America aren't business people and they don't understand sales. They don't understand good product.

I really think I tried to capture the essence of the comics: what I thought would be the essence of Elektra. And then, as any character that I play, I really tried to dig inside me and try to reach real emotions and transpose that in her world, in who she is.

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

I think a lot of the time, comic art is dismissed as... not art, and comic writing is dismissed as not literature.

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

There is a certain danger in thinking about diversity in its own little box, as something that is somehow separate from 'normal' comic books and comics creators.

I had a lot of ideas on how comics worked and pretty early on I had this idea that it would be fun to explain them in comics form.

I grew up one of three girls, and none of them were into comic books, so I wasn't exposed to that world.

You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different faces. I saw a funny book in his room and it looked like the same character he was playing. It was about a duck.

There was a show I loved as a kid: 'The Blue Falcon & Dynomutt.'

As a fanboy, I was raised on the Marvel Universe, so I was very familiar with the 'Deadpool' world. On the other side, the 'X-Men' comics were one of my top five comics, so to be one of them, especially Colossus, is an incredible thing after years of creatively visualizing him since I was a kid.

When I was in school I read a lot of comic books and pretend I was in them and kids would tease me and call me names. But now I do the same things and people say that I'm artistic and cool and I'm doing the exact same thing I did in high school.

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.