Comic Quote by Constance Rourke Download Open image “In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism.” — Constance Rourke ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Comic Criticism Social Tradition Whole
Look, there's no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years, and for someone… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
I grew up with comic books, and I'm from the Caribbean, so comic books were really a great interrogator of American culture for me. — Winston Duke Copy Share Image
In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over. — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
Comics can definitely be subversive on the whole, but it's a stylistic thing. — Ted Alexandro Copy Share Image
I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture. Not because I'm such a high brow intellectual and bloody European. But it's just… — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
It's a mystery to me why comics have been so despised for so long. Obviously, it has to do with the history of the… — Jessica Abel Copy Share Image
One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were definitely an outlet for us. — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The British are actually a lot more appreciative of the comic. In Canada, if you're perceived as a comic writer, there's a real snobbery,… — Miriam Toews Copy Share Image
There is scarcely an aspect of the American character to which humor is not related, few which in some sense it has not governed.… — Constance Rourke Copy Share Image
humor bears the closest relation to emotion, either bubbling up as from a deep and happy wellspring, or in an opposite fashion rising like… — Constance Rourke Copy Share Image
Whole phases of comedy have become empty; the comic rejoinder has become every man's tool. — Constance Rourke Copy Share Image
In comedy, reconcilement with life comes at the point when to the tragic sense only an inalienable difference or dissension with life appears. — Constance Rourke Copy Share Image
An emotional man may possess no humor, but a humorous man usually has deep pockets of emotion, sometimes tucked away or forgotten. — Constance Rourke Copy Share Image
Humor has been a fashioning instrument in America, cleaving its way through the national life, holding tenaciously to the spread elements of that life.… — Constance Rourke Copy Share Image
I always loved as a kid reading 'Spider-Man,' and the 'Fantastic Four' would show up... it was all about that larger universe. — Peyton Reed Copy Share Image
One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice. — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
I identify with Superman. I am adopted, I am an only child, and I love the idea that he comes from another world, that… — Bryan Singer Copy Share Image
Before World War II, I was living a very cloistered existence, as most cartoonists do. The work I was pouring out did not come… — Will Eisner Copy Share Image
If you look at Marvel Comics, there are very few Marvel characters I would like to write. — Garth Ennis Copy Share Image
The big problem for comic art is you don't want to overwork it. If a drawing is overworked it isn't funny. It's the spontaneity… — Edward Sorel Copy Share Image
Leslie Stein's comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders. — Jim Woodring Copy Share Image
I've certainly seen a lot of my cartoonist friends embrace 'Little Lulu' in a much deeper way because their kids love it so much.… — Seth Copy Share Image
Batman doesn't have any superpowers. He's not superhuman. He's not super. So therefore he can't be a superhero. — Craig Silvey Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'Black Panther,' on one level, I was angry because DC would never let me write 'Batman,' so I was doing… — Christopher Priest Copy Share Image
I was really into the first 'Spider-Man' films with Tobey Maguire, so it's pretty cool how it all came full circle. — Jacob Batalon Copy Share Image
