Awaiting Quote by Adam Hughes

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

— Scott McCloud

I always start drawing any job by planning out to some degree the locales and trying to nail the characters. If they're existing characters,…

— Dave Gibbons

Look at related industries. Concept art for games and film. Animation. Lots of places to hone your skill as an artist and still earn…

— Joe Madureira

It wasn't until I went to my first comic convention while I was in high school that I got to see actual comic book…

— George Perez

“Writing comics? Still the best job in the world. I sit around all day making shit up and see it illustrated, in 99% of…

— Warren Ellis

I don't spend as much time drawing as I do writing and reading. That's the really work-intensive part. And by the time I have…

— Kate Beaton

Comics don't usually have very long careers, and I'm 22 years into this.

— Jeff Foxworthy

You need to be, like, turning down high-paying illustration work because you want to work on your comic. That's when you know you're doing…

— Daniel Clowes

By and large, I think that comics work seriously hard. Many have other jobs as well, plus you never really switch off, so you're…

— Amy Hoggart

I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.

— Anthony Bourdain

If you want to draw comics, you really have to love to draw, as you will be spending many hours sitting down with a…

— Dave Gibbons

I was in my early twenties and trying to figure out what I wanted to do and comics came back in my life and…

— Charles Forsman