Always Quote by Michael Moorcock

The first work I ever did in comics was for Archie Comics, and I didn't do that very long because I did other stuff.

— Neal Adams

Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as a writer first.

— Warren Ellis

I've always wanted to write comic books, my earliest memories are of waiting for Dad to come home from work, and, secreted in his…

— Arvind Ethan David

Growing up in Malaysia and England, there wasn't an obvious route into the comics world, so my creative energy went into theatre and prose…

— Arvind Ethan David

I was influenced by autobiographical writers like Henry Miller, and I had actually done some autobiographical prose. But I just thought that comics were…

— Harvey Pekar

I was very influenced by comics. The drawing style, definitely, I was interested in. My style of drawing is largely a comic style, but…

— Raymond Pettibon

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians,…

— Harvey Pekar

I drew the same things that most boys drew - airplanes and cars and fire engines. Then later on I discovered comic books, and…

— Floyd Norman

I've always loved comic books. As a kid, I used to read cowboy stories and historical comics about other worlds, unknown places that would…

— James Herbert

When I first got interested in comics at the time I was studying architecture and I discovered comics as a medium through listening to…

— Francoise Mouly

It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.

— Scott McCloud

My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.

— Harvey Pekar