Alternatives Quote by Jim Woodring

Comic book readers are just as abandoned by the corporate system as the creators, despite the importance supposedly given their hard-earned dollars. The average…

— Scott McCloud

The idea that comics stores, distributors and publishers simply 'give the customers what they want' is nonsense. What the customers wanted they didn't get…

— Scott McCloud

It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board…

— Alan Moore

On the whole, and this comment can get me in a lot of trouble, I find that retailers in the comic book business are…

— Rob Walton

We consume everything like potato chips. In this environment, I suspect the cartoonist's connection with readers is likely to be superficial and fleeting, unless…

— Bill Watterson

In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To…

— Ben Katchor

Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.

— Chris Ware

I had thought comics could only be one thing, and that was what mainstream comics were selling us. And the undergrounders proved anything you…

— Stephen R. Bissette

I grew up a fan of comics and hanging out in local comic book stores, talking to the store manager and seeing what their…

— Aidan Gallagher

Maybe there will always be a market for the regular comic books because you can read [them] at your own pace. You can save…

— Stan Lee

If you just write the kinds of stories you think others will want to read, you'll be competing with cartoonists who are far more…

— Scott McCloud

The people that are running the bulk of the comic shops in North America aren't business people and they don't understand sales. They don't…

— Rob Walton