Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bill Griffith

But now with technology I could sit down and do a bunch of character drawings and scan them into a computer, and the computer using my exact style could bring it into life, where it would have been edited by various human beings before.

Doug Larson

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.

Berkeley Breathed

The comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.

Berkeley Breathed

Negative humor is forgotten immediately. It's the stuff that makes us feel better about our lives that lives long. Much more satisfying. Enter children's books.

Phil Foglio

We start out talking about the story, trying to figure out who is who and what should happen, taking notes the whole time. Then I do a rough layout of the issue, showing what happens on each page. Then we discuss that some more.

Alison Bechdel

My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.

Alison Bechdel

But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father.

Alison Bechdel

That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gender identity that I haven't figured out yet. And that's one of the things I'm hoping to dissect and investigate in this memoir project.

Alison Bechdel

I get a lot of mail from men who really identify with Stuart, you know, Sparrow's boyfriend. I love that. Even though I used to say I wanted men to read the strip even though there weren't any men in it, so they'd be forced to identify with the women.

Bill Griffith

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other.

Mike Peters

We believe in personal choice, rather than society dictating how we must live our lives.

Bill Griffith

At this point it's kind of a faded, tattered dream, but over the years there was some serious effort and a lot of serious money spent to make a movie.

Cathy Guisewite

I had such a close relationship with my dog, and my dog so filled the need in my life to have children that I just wanted Cathy to have that experience.

Doug Larson

There are few things more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.

Doug Larson

The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.

Gary Larson

This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at.

I was married, my wife was pregnant, and I just wanted to get out of the laboring bit and try to become an artist. I liked that all my life.

Walt Disney

You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality.

Jhonen Vasquez

Johnny was the very first book I did.

Jhonen Vasquez

Usually when I get a letter from a parent it's because they buy my stuff. I don't really get a whole lot of negative response in general.

Joseph Barbera

You keep pitching. Most of the pitches run wild. A few are caught.

That's the problem today: Who is the creator?

Alison Bechdel

Yeah, I think some of that is just wish-fulfillment, you know, how little kids fantasize through their drawings. I wanted to be powerful.

Ted Rall

I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.

Alison Bechdel

It's definitely part of it, that the men were having fun and doing the interesting things but also, I don't know, I'm just thinking more about gender and how maybe in some way I am more of a boy than a girl.

Archie was in the fold of all the other publishers that I was working for, and I was probably averaging one story a week from them.

Alison Bechdel

And the idea that a story is true, that it actually happened, is endlessly compelling, I think, not just to me but to people in general.

Alison Bechdel

I mean, I'll have an idea about what a panel will look like as I'm writing, but I often don't touch a pencil until the text is completely finished.

Alison Bechdel

I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more different kinds of characters. It's really not all lesbians any more.

Jhonen Vasquez

I love the show and a lot of what came out of it, like some of the people I met and got to work with, but those were truly some of the unhappiest days of my life.

Walt Disney

I never called my work an 'art' It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

Mike Peters

It's not like I'm taking 20 grand from the shows. I mean there's no record label, so this is a genuine thing. And I think most people can see that. I think that anyone who knows me, knows I do things with integrity.

After about twenty issues of Josie, they decided to pay me.