Comics Quote by R.C. Harvey

“Comics are drawings, not photographs, and as such they present a subjective view of reality.”

— Frederik L. Schodt

“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

Storytelling is one of comics' esthetic hurdles at the moment, which was the novelist's problem 150 years ago: namely, to take comics from storytelling…

— Chris Ware

Comics are a "young" art form, and there is much confusion as to how to treat them. Images have more immediate impact than words,…

— Phoebe Gloeckner

Comics have the page as their real estate so you've only got that space to tell the story on. But the other thing only…

— Leah Moore

Comics deal with two fundamental communicating devices: words and images. Admittedly this is an arbitrary separation. But, since in the modern world of communication…

— Will Eisner

Comics can do any kind of story. It's words and pictures, the only things it can't do are sing and dance.

— Sean Michael Wilson

Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.

— Harvey Pekar

I've said this before, but I don't like putting captions in my comic books. I feel, for me, they become a crutch, a way…

— Tom King

Comics can definitely be subversive on the whole, but it's a stylistic thing.

— Ted Alexandro

There is a visual narrative that is implicitly understandable even when you don't understand the words and in a good comic, and they are…

— Francoise Mouly

So much of comics are dictated by characters talking to one another - or in focused spaces where 'the camera' has to stay in…

— Jim Lee