Quotes About Comics

Maggot calmed me down by explaining Bible stories were a category of superhero comics.

I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.

I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes.

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

There are very religious people who write comics and who love comics.

My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books.

He Who Remains is in the comics, but the version in our show was very different.

Repeats are the worst, and 'Peanuts' was the one that started that. They don't rerun the news, do they? They don't repeat any other part of the paper. Why do they do it in the comics?

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

I've got a particular way of writing novels, and that carries over into the way I write comics and games, too. I'm a news journalist by background, so I approach everything as reporting - I treat it as real, I ask the questions I'd ask in a real situation, and I let the characters speak for themselves.

I broke into comics by working as a press reporter for the industry, for a trade press in comics, and reporting on events and reporting on books and so forth, and I got to know some of the editors at DC Comics in the mid-'80s.

I can definitely say that of all my friends who I consider to be really great cartoonists, we're all trying to aim at basically the same thing, which is an ever closer representation of what it feels like to be alive.

Huge props to Brian Michael Bendis for sort of shaking up the Marvel universe and just saying 'there need to be people of colour in these comics otherwise it's not representing the true world the way it should be.'

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

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.

When it comes to X-Men, Ice Man is my favorite.

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

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

I believe that a good comic script can succeed despite being drawn badly, but that a bad script can't be saved by good art. Of course, great writing and great illustration makes for a great comic 100 percent of the time.

The reason I love comics and have collected them for 37 years is because I always wanted to be an illustrator and a writer - and comics are really the perfect blend of those two mediums.

Dialogue is one of the easiest ways to get character conflict across immediately in comics.

I think with a lot of comics, their gift is improv. They don't have a script. They'll have a couple of good ideas they start with, and go from there. And it's the same in wrestling.

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.

The great thing about having digital comics is that it is like having a comic-book shop on your digital device. It has turned comics from a destination buy to an impulse buy.