Comics Quotes · Page 19

If I hadn't had the outlet of writing and drawing comics, I guess there's a good chance I wouldn't be around today.

— Jim Starlin

Maybe the best comics are written by people who really are at ease in the comic world.

— Terry Pratchett

I think there's too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques.

— Ted Naifeh

Comics and actors come from such a wide variety of backgrounds and there's a theory that all comedians had tortured youths.

— Brad Hall

“Pictures that don't make sense are magic. they hold balls of light covered in millions of spells swirled into a cell.”

— Alexa Kitchen (age 7

What we do as comics can be a service to people. It can make them laugh and take their mind off their…

— Lisa Lampanelli

I'd met enough comics to know that few of them are happy. In fact, now that I think about it, I can't…

— Demond Wilson

I'm always a little nervous when someone comes from other media into writing comics. It's a unique storytelling form, and it requires…

— Brian Stelfreeze

I found a great deal of relief and excitement watching comics when I was very young. My grandmother was very into them…

— Marc Maron

There are certain comics that just seem like they have this perfect balance between dialogue and image that I can't not read.…

— Daniel Clowes

Comics know that they do best. They might not be best to rewrite to another person's comedy, but they know what is…

— Adam DeVine

I was sort of on a mission with 'American Splendor.' I wanted to try to prove that comics could do things. I…

— Harvey Pekar

One of the great things about being involved with comics is that those people are devoted to their characters, writers and artists.…

— Charlie Huston

I know there are fewer women comics, and I think there'll continue to be an inherent sexism in many industries, comedy being…

— Miranda Hart

I've read comics all my life and have wanted to write a comic for as long as I can remember. Alex Barnaby…

— Janet Evanovich

I think supporting casts in comics are missing. I think a lot of the time in comics, all we have are people…

— Geoff Johns

Many in the creative professions were nerds in their pasts because they spent so long reading comics and using their imaginations when…

— Jim Lee

Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other…

— Dave Gibbons

I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.

— Grant Morrison

You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss…

— Kevin Smith

“Comics are a sub-set of pictorial narrative; therefore, all comics are pictorial narratives, but not all pictorial narratives are comics.”

— R.C. Harvey

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…

— Brian K. Vaughan

“This is 911 dispatch, and the nature of your emergency… fire, ambulance, police or… physics?”

— Simon Oliver

I really like the look of old '70s and '80s Japanese comics, so I think that style is something I will continue…

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

Comic-Con is definitely grown from just being about comics to being about all forms of media.

— Eric Wight

I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque…

— George A. Romero

“Our steel-tipped step-ladder arrows will let us rescue that injured stork that settled down on top of the obelisk and can't fly…

— Robert Bernstein

Comics are actually a lot more difficult to read than I thought they would be. After my second 'Deadpool' comic, I kind…

— Brianna Hildebrand

I think Chicago has provided, for quite a long time, a very high level of stand-up comics that make their way out…

— Andrew Santino

Something that comics afford me is being able to change my mind at the last minute.

— Charles Forsman

I guess my journey with comics began with stuff like Spider-Man and Batman. I started off with mainstream superhero stuff, which I've…

— Brian K. Vaughan

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

— Andrew W.K

The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like…

— Toyin Odutola

I tried to draw and write comics when I was four. By the time I was nine, I had written my first…

— Joe R. Lansdale

These days, you don't just break into comics once. You have to break in again and again after each job is finished.

— C. B. Cebulski

There's Dick Van Dyke and John Ritter, the two greatest physical comics of our generation.

— Suzanne Somers

I don't want to be one of those comics who says, 'Hey, what's wrong with air travel?' and stuff like that.

— Russell Howard

Any medium can only live up to the strengths of the people working in it. If it's been used to tell bad…

— Marjane Satrapi

As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual…

— Ben Katchor

A lot of comics are kind of vampire types; we do our shows and disappear into the night. My philosophy was, this…

— Dane Cook