20th century Quote by Jim Woodring

I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age.

— Daniel Clowes

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

In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism.

— Constance Rourke

Frank Sinatra was the voice of the 20th-century American city.

— Pete Hamill

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

— Scott McCloud

In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special.

— Marc Maron

The 1930s - a Golden Age for American humor, mainly because everything else was going so badly. The wisecrack was the basic American sentence…

— Wilfrid Sheed

I came to think that nobody from England could draw American comic books, because they were clearly all done by this sort of Mafia,…

— Dave Gibbons

I wanted wherever possible to lean into the comic form and do things in the story telling that could only be done in comics…

— Arvind Ethan David

Comics are an international language, they can cross boundaries and generations. Comics are a bridge between all cultures.

— Osamu Tezuka

All I thought about when I wrote my stories was, "I hope that these comic books would sell so I can keep my job…

— Stan Lee

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