Comics Quote by Frederik L. Schodt

“Through traditional realism, the comics artist can portray the world without-- --and through the cartoon, the world within.”

— Scott McCloud

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

— R.C. Harvey

Comics were a place where captivating images lit your imagination and showed you that you can create new kinds of people and worlds.

— Kerry James Marshall

Comics deal with two fundamental communicating devices: words and images. Admittedly this is an arbitrary separation. But, since in the modern world of communication…

— Will Eisner

Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.

— Harvey Pekar

I've seen situations where I think comics are really unrealistic about what creative expression and what the artistic freedom, what that entails.

— Chris Gethard

Comics are a "young" art form, and there is much confusion as to how to treat them. Images have more immediate impact than words,…

— Phoebe Gloeckner

A comic is a way of literally experiencing someone else's vision with a purity that I don't think any other medium offers; there are…

— Chris Ware

The "essence" of comics is fundamentally the weird process of reading pictures, not just looking at them. I see the black outlines of cartoons…

— Chris Ware

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction…

— Daniel Clowes

“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

Comics is different than writing because when you draw something you are trying to visualize it and you are trying to put yourself in…

— Chris Ware