Arise Quote by John Updike

Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or…

— Garry Trudeau

Anyone who has the kind of inventive and inspired comic sensibility to be able to do that kind of work must be pretty talented.

— Amy Poehler

It's a constant struggle in the comic community to be considered a book and to be considered art, but it's just as time-consuming as…

— Lights

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 could use more creators with something worthwhile to say.

— Jim Woodring

[Comics is] one of the last havens for honesty when it comes to a reader's genuine response to art. Most of us, if we…

— Chris Ware

Writing a comic book series, you're so reliant on whoever the artist is. It truly is collaboration.

— James Gunn

A novel is 400 pages; it's an endurance race. There's no artist, so I have to describe everything. It's all prose. Whereas with comics,…

— Marjorie Liu

Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith in the…

— Denise Mina

I believe people may have a predisposition for artistic creativity. It doesn't mean they're going to make it.

— Rita Dove

Creativity and Innovation produces better comics.

— Jamal Igle

I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.

— Scott McCloud