Comic Quote by Robert Mankoff Download Open image “One of the first comic things you do is imitate.” — Robert Mankoff ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Comic First Imitate Things You
I'm in awe of comics that do things that I can't do, or haven't tried doing yet. — Brad Williams Copy Share Image
All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form. — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
Back then, I was doing more of my impression of what a comic is supposed to do. — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at… — Art Spiegelman Copy Share Image
If you are going to be a character for the long-term you can't just imitate, you have to bring yourself to it. — Russi Taylor Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There's so many people out there who try to imitate what I do but I am the original, — Paris Hilton Copy Share Image
I really can't pinpoint the one moment when I said I want to be a comic. — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
I will pick a raft of cartoons. And then later, it'll come time to run this cartoon. And I'll look at it, and I… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
Humor of all types is notoriously subjective. That's true not only between different people but even within an individual at different times. This subjectivity… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
'The New Yorker' didn't invent the magazine cartoon, but it did really establish it. — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
I have been married three times and it just keeps better and better, but I'm going to stop here. — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
The line between humor and bad taste is your audience, in which some people will find everything offensive, and some people will find nothing… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
The generations that were exposed to sitcom have the people actually saying the line, saying the joke, whereas sort of before that you have… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
When you look back at the older cartoons, they're very much more observational cartoons. And the cartoon, the people in the cartoons are not… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
There's usually nothing in a guy's joke in which we have to understand what's going on in someone else's mind. — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
I'm pretty adept with computers and Photoshop for my blog, and I found my style with a conversational voice and an image-ready column. — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
Cartoons are like fruit flies. Biologists use fruit flies because their large chromosomes and short life cycle make them ideal for studying hereditary changes. — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
I know everybody wants humor to be subversive and speak truth to power. I don't think power's been listening, incidentally. — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
I think what Jewish culture taught me and what the - and Jewish culture now is everyone's culture - is all these embarrassing things,… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice. — Jim Lee Copy Share Image
The big problem for comic art is you don't want to overwork it. If a drawing is overworked it isn't funny. It's the spontaneity… — Edward Sorel Copy Share Image
Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now. — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
It's really a pity that there are observers who view political events like comic strips. There has to be a Zorro, there has to… — Thomas Sankara Copy Share Image
I've always had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting. — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
I never envisioned when I was reading that comic as a 17-year-old that I would have the opportunity to actually play the character. — Karl Urban Copy Share Image
Describing comic sensibility is near impossible. It's sort of an abstract silliness, that sometimes the joke isn't the star. — Dana Carvey Copy Share Image
I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents. — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
When you think of comic book readers, you never think of the brown girl, and I was that. — Iman Vellani Copy Share Image
“The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
