High Quote by Mickey Spillane

When I did get into comic books, it was after a whole other career, and when I got into comic books, they didn't even…

— Neal Adams

I started as a standup comic and an actor.

— Larry Wilmore

When I started out, I really struggled as a comic because no one knew who I was, and sometimes I was telling stories, so…

— Mike Birbiglia

I was a huge comic geek growing up and even made my own comics.

— Aidan Gallagher

I grew up really being a comic book geek, and that was a really big part of my childhood.

— Rob Van Dam

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

I guess my journey with comics began with stuff like Spider-Man and Batman. I started off with mainstream superhero stuff, which I've never abandoned.

— Brian K. Vaughan

I grew up in the 1970s and early 1980s, loving comic books, and they were much cartoonier. And then everything became super dark and…

— Genndy Tartakovsky

I've actually steered away from just calling them 'comics.' I just call them books.

— Lights

I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.

— Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the '70s

— Glenn Danzig

I'd begun reading Crumb shortly before that, and other underground stuff, so that was an influence to some degree. Of course the Marvel and…

— Chester Brown