Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Moseley

It seems like they make every comic book into a film. 'Watchmen' is my favorite of all time.

Warren Ellis

Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as a writer first.

Ashley Scott

Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme - it's taken very seriously. So I tried to do as much learning as I could about it so I wasn't mean or anything.

Tim Harford

Funnily enough, the Federal Reserve produced comics about monetary policy, and there is a good comic book guide to microeconomics and macroeconomics out there. But it is not really appropriate for younger readers; it is really aimed at economics students.

Rowan Atkinson

And what's interesting about him as a comic character is that the custard pie hardly ever ends up on his face.

Harvey Pekar

When I was a kid, back in the '40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there was a lot of patriotism in the comics. They were called things like 'All-American Comics' or 'Star-Spangled Comics' or things like that. I decided to do a logo that was a parody of those comics, with 'American' as the first word.

Alan Moore

There's nothing that could get me interested in Hollywood again. And, increasingly, there's nothing that could get me interested in the American comics industry again.

Bob Newhart

With the stand-up comic on TV, whether it's Seinfeld or Cosby or Roseanne, more important than their knowledge of how to tell a joke is their knowledge of themselves, or the persona they've created as themselves. So that when you're in a room with writers, you can say, 'Guys, that's a funny line, but I wouldn't say it.'

Kevin Smith

You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss Whedon.

Colin Trevorrow

I can say pretty confidently that I am not the right guy to do a superhero movie, just because I was not a comic book kid. I don't know that mythology, and I don't have it ingrained in me in the way that a lot of these other directors do.

Ted Naifeh

Us comics guys tend to get really good at the things we draw a lot. I'm good at creepy old forests, Victorian houses, underground goblin cities, and beautiful but creepy fairies.

Chris Wooding

We relate comics to the main super-heroes, but it's a great medium through which all sorts of stories are told.

Joan Rivers

Any comic is a very good actor. Look at Don Rickles. He is saying the same joke every night for 20 years and making it look like he just thought of it.

Brian Posehn

I had seen other comic friends of mine go to indie labels. Like David Cross and Pat Oswald went to Subpop, and Subpop didn't make total sense for me, but the metal version of that did. So I made a small list with Metal Blade, Prosthetic and couple of other labels, and Relapse was one of them.

Gerard Way

'Watchmen' is not only the greatest comic ever written, it's a really important work of fiction.

Gene Weingarten

I have two favorites: Reading Kierkegaard while listening to Mozart's Piano Concerto 9 in E Flat Major, and reading early Bazooka Joe comics in Hebrew.

Dave Gibbons

I think readers are always patient. Look at the 'Harry Potter' series. Some have given up on this generation of kids as game and TV addicts, but lots of people spend lots of time patiently reading through hundreds of pages of dense prose. I think reading a comic by comparison is a lot more immediate.

Joe Sacco

With comics you can put interesting and solid information in a format that's pretty palatable.

Emily Perkins

I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have pretty good sense of comic timing, so I'd really like to try that.

Garry Trudeau

In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.

Gene Luen Yang

I minored in creative writing in college, and I've played with the idea of doing something more hybrid, but comics are my first love.

Josh McDermitt

The really cool thing about when you're playing a comic book character is that no one knows what he sounds like.

Frank Miller

In a way, 'Sin City's designed to be paced somewhere between an American comic book and Japanese manga. Working in black and white, I realized that the eye is less patient, and you have to make your point, and sometimes repeat it. Slowing things down is harder in black and white, because there isn't as much for the eye to enjoy.

I'd heard Joyce Grenfell on the radio, and when Mum gave me a book of her comic routines, I just loved it. Me and my sister shared a bedroom, and every night I'd drive her mad with my version of 'George, Don't Do That' about people we knew at school.

Dave Sim

It was pure guesswork on my part back in 1979 as to whether I would have the stamina to write, pencil, ink, letter, tone, and fill the back of a monthly comic book for 26 years.

Berkeley Breathed

Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists.

Bryan Singer

What I had noticed is that there weren't a lot of women lining up to see a comic book movie, but they were going to line up to see 'The Devil Wears Prada,' which may have been something I wanted to address.

Bill Bryson

I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don't tell you anything about me. I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

Inga Muscio

I have laughter dates with myself, where I find comics on YouTube and watch them. Louis C.K. was my first laughter date a couple years ago. I'll also watch those videos of people doing idiotic things. That cracks me up.

Ira Glass

At some point, all comics have to go out and be retail salesmen doing door-to-door. And this idea of somebody who totally knows their craft having to get up for free in front of a crowd to work out some stuff they're thinking in their head, still, after as much success as you can get, is really interesting.

Christopher Moore

You can't teach someone to be funny, but you can teach comic timing. If you listen to a good comic, you can learn how to put it on a page.

Chelsea Cain

I guess people might be surprised to know I read comic books. I'm a Marvel girl, as opposed to DC.

Bruce Campbell

With a comic book, if you make it take place at night, it doesn't cost you a penny more, ... You can have rain and wind and sets that are vastly decorated, you can have great locations because you're making it all up ... it was a great opportunity to tell more of a true version of the story.