You can go through comic strips alone and study the common…

About the only way you can find out about the common man, his slang, what he looked like, what he thought, is through the…

— Mort Walker

There are some with whom we may study in common, but we shall find them unable to go along with us to principles. Perhaps…

— Confucius

I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on…

— Mort Walker

It's really a pity that there are observers who view political events like comic strips. There has to be a Zorro, there has to…

— Thomas Sankara

“‘Jane’s World’ has pushed the boundaries for mainstream comic strips: girls have kissed, punched each other, have been abducted by aliens, taken steamy showers…

— Paige Braddock

In a comic strip, you can suggest motion and time, but it's very crude compared to what an animator can do. I have a…

— Bill Watterson

In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness.

— Maurice Bejart

In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.

— George Carlin

I'm extremely surprised to learn that a story, which has become familiar to children through the medium of comic strips and many succeeding novels…

— Orson Welles

In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.

— Bill Watterson

The frustration of being ordered around by somebody to do something - everyone can relate to that. I think Beetle represents that - the…

— Mort Walker

In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To…

— Ben Katchor

I think in daily newspapers, the way comic strips are treated, it's as if newspaper publishers are going out of their way to kill…

— Matt Groening

Why does one never hear of government funding for the preservation and encouragement of comic strips, girlie magazines and TV soap operas? Because these…

— John Updike

It used to be that comic strips were the big thing, and comic books were toilet paper.

— Neal Adams