Abandoned Quote by Bill Griffith

I grew up in the 1970s and early 1980s, loving comic books, and they were much cartoonier. And then everything became super dark and…

— Genndy Tartakovsky

I've always been really fascinated by Vincent van Gogh.

— Michael C. Hall

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

— Scott McCloud

Like a lot of young people who wanted to be artists, comics were a gateway for me.

— Kerry James Marshall

And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist, be it…

— Brian Michael Bendis

What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.

— Dan DeCarlo

I was envious of [Vincent] Van Gogh because I could never make a painting that beautiful! (Ridiculous, I know.) That was when the character…

— Liza Campbell

I was just a guy who did adult or alternative comic books. And then suddenly to be, like, a New Yorker cover artist was…

— Adrian Tomine

I love art and I think I was destined to end up in some aspect of the arts.

— Ken Baumann

The comics were not only stories to enjoy; for me they were drawings that possessed me.

— Jean Giraud

I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.

— Thomas Jane

I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist…..I had lost all interest in the art…

— Jean Dubuffet