Quotes About Comics

Growing up for me in the Philippines was hard to read comic books because I'm blind.

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.

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

I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.

People try to pigeonhole comics by saying they're just for kids. So is The Odyssey. So is the Labors of Hercules, the story of Fa Mulan. The advantage of those stories over the contemporary ones is that they've had 2,000 years of editing. All the crap has been weeded out over time.

One of the best decisions we made on the 'Arrow' pilot was to have the Deathstroke mask. Within 30 seconds, you knew you were watching a DC comics show.

The biggest problem almost all comics face is not piracy or demographics or any of that nonsense: it's obscurity.

I'm a wall to wall geek. I love sci fi; I've had a crush on Spider-Man since I was five years old, and there's an uncomfortably large shelf in my living room just for my comics.

I started once a week in North Carolina at a pub called Charlie Goodnight and met a lot of comics there. Then I moved to L.A., and if you're not known, it's hard to get stage time. So you start out doing what they call 'bringers' - you have to bring five people if you wanna get on stage. It was a lot of hustle, a learning curve.

Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying.

Basically, I learned to read by reading 'Peanuts,' just wanting to know what they were saying. I was 4 or 5 or whatever. I think it's a fairly common story.

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

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.

I was looking to explore the theme of good and evil, so what better inspiration than the comics? I'd developed a relationship with DC and Warner Bros. when I donated a sculpture of Catwoman to the 'We Can Be Heroes' campaign a few years ago. That's what started it.

There are plenty of characters I'd love to write. Swamp Thing, Etrigan the Demon, Man-Thing, Howard the Duck, Dr. Strange, Dr. Druid, Ghost Rider, the Micronauts, the Shogun Warriors... the list goes on and on.

I was a comic book nut and grew up on 'Star Wars' and 'Indiana Jones.'

I love Raina Telgemeier

Basically, if you like 'Deadpool,' you'll love 'Captain Underpants.'

Captain America and the Avengers were my favorite characters as a kid.

I like Captain America because I liked Captain America when I was younger.

We knew a little bit about Carol Danvers, but we certainly hadn't read all the comics and didn't know all her history.

I do love sparse cartooning.

The thing that I came to realize was that Schulz is the great unifier. Here's the one cartoonist that pretty much everybody can agree on.

Carl Barks and Don Rosa are two of my favorite cartoonists ever.