Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Mike Peters

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

Bill Griffith

Well, I've done a lot of strips since I've been here about Zippy and me being in Connecticut.

Bill Griffith

Zippy accepts chaos as what it is, which is the real order of everything.

Bill Griffith

I think Zippy is part of me, but I'm not Zippy.

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.

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.

Jhonen Vasquez

Johnny was the very first book I did.

Cathy Guisewite

When Irving got Vivian it was at a point when CATHY was thoroughly disgusted with him and then suddenly saw this other side of him.

Paul Conrad

It is a peculiar art form, but I think it's a necessary art form - and I do believe it's a noble art form.

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.

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.

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.

Joseph Barbera

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Matt Groening

A lot of people believe that if everybody just did what they were told - obeyed - everything would be fine. But that's not what life is all about. That's not real. It's never going to happen.

Bill Griffith

Zippy is living in the moment. He's at peace with himself because he's out of step with everyone; he doesn't know it, and he doesn't care.

Walt Disney

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Jhonen Vasquez

Some robot who never made me laugh didn't think was funny or didn't think the audience would understand. I guess that's television.

Ted Rall

I used to wake up every day and think of some way he'd slighted me. Now that I've sent this thing out into the world I hardly ever think about my Dad.

Joseph Barbera

Ted Turner sailed into the meeting, and I mean sailed. He holds himself as if he were at the helm of his sailboat, in the process of winning the race.