Black Quote by Iliza Shlesinger

My first influences were superhero artists.

— Scott McCloud

My two biggest influences are Archie comics and Dennis the Menace.

— Anonymous

When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didn't introduce myself as an…

— David Mazzucchelli

When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didnt introduce myself as an…

— David Mazzucchelli

There aren't a lot of African-American superheroes. I've been reading comics since I was eight or nine years old. Luke Cage stood out.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

I started as a standup comic and an actor.

— Larry Wilmore

I like 'Batman,' as a comic and a movie franchise, but as a Black comic fan, he's always been a problem.

— Jason Johnson

I'm very much influenced by your traditional comic book artists like Jack Kirby, Alex Toth and Walter Simonson. Their styles were sort of what…

— Tim Fish

In the film industry, we tend to pick up where others have left off, and I'd like to think the influences I picked up…

— Scott Adkins

I guess my journey with comics began with stuff like Spider-Man and Batman. I started off with mainstream superhero stuff, which I've never abandoned.

— Brian K. Vaughan

Black people didn't start coming to see me until 1982. I'd just started doing Delbert, and suddenly my world changed. I started doing black-centred…

— Lenny Henry

I started drawing comics, and at first I was very influenced by the whole pop art movement, you know, Batman was on TV and…

— Trina Robbins