Art Quote by Marjorie Liu

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

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

“The comic book is not the book. the graphic novel is not the novel. The same, of course, is true of films and television.…

— George R.R. Martin

I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is just a…

— Marjane Satrapi

People try to pigeonhole comics by saying they're just for kids. So is The Odyssey. So is the Labors of Hercules, the story of…

— Chris Claremont

There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic books. But the true cognoscenti know graphic…

— John Ridley

The extraordinary thing about comic books and graphic novels is that they cannot exist without the art. If my words disappeared tomorrow, well, whatever.…

— Marjorie M. Liu

My view is that comic books are meant to be long-form stories. They're meant to be novels.

— Neal Adams

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

If comics need to be deconstructed and explained, something is really wrong with them.

— Bill Watterson

That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto, whereas the…

— Adrian Tomine

I've always preferred comics that really rely on visual storytelling. It's what makes comics special. Otherwise, you're better off reading a novel.

— Cliff Chiang