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I've been reading comics since I was four. I used to get them when I would go grocery shopping with my mom. I remember getting the digest versions of old DC comics. The one that I remember reading first was Paul Levitz' 'Justice Society of America' stuff that he was doing in the '70s. Jeff Lemire
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When I started out in the eighties, the idea of creating serious comics for adults was pretty laughable to most folks, and for the longest time it was hard to even explain what alternative comics or graphic novels were. Nobody seemed to understand or care. Not so, any longer. Seth
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I'm not a comic person at all. It never reached me in the north of Ireland, in the '60s and '70s growing up. We used to get stupid comics like 'The Topper' and 'The Beezer,' things like that. Ciaran Hinds
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Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in frames with minimalistic dialogue. And a lot of it is left to the imagination of the reader. To do that in film, you've got to be a little more explanatory. And that requires a good screenplay and good dialogue. Ridley Scott
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Superman was my first comic back in the '50s; that was me under the bedspread with the flashlight reading comic books. Jok Church
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Superman has been my favorite character since I was six years old, and I have more comics featuring Superman than any other single character.
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Not paying the comics a dime -- that's Penn's greatest magic trick, Gilbert Gottfried
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Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback. Garry Trudeau
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I'm not just offensive, I'm very smart about the way that I do it, and that takes a lot of time. People say that young comics shouldn't be trying these things. That's ridiculous. You should try everything and see what sticks. Anthony Jeselnik
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I kept telling my mom that reading comic books would pay off. Joss Whedon
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That's a comic cover's job: Attract someone's attention and persuade them to try the issue out. Adam Hughes
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I've grown tremendously as an actor by being there. It is comic writing the likes of which I don't know that I'll ever see again and it's been a great, great experience. Matt LeBlanc
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I've gotten more and more cut off from the regular comic-book world, from straight comics and stuff like that. Once in a while, I'll take a look at something. Harvey Pekar
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In television, if I write that Matthew Fox flies up around the island so he can see how big it is, we have to actually shoot that. In a comic book, you write it, somebody draws it and there it is. No budget, no actors. That frees you up to really do some outside-the-box storytelling. Damon Lindelof
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Comics is a powerful idea, but an idea that's been squandered, ignored and misunderstood for generations, Scott McCloud
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Comics are in my blood. It's my strange addiction, and I love it. Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
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Comics are given serious attention now and I'm quite surprised. You see them reviewed in major newspapers and exhibited in serious museums. I wouldn't have predicted it. Seth
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Comics are about the illusion of movement, and movies are about movement itself.
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If I didn't draw comics I was a worthless human being. It was tedious labor, so I worked fast to get it over with. Robert Crumb
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I don't see any division between the comic and the tragic. I feel like I'm writing about serious things, and humour is one of my tools. It's not contrived, just part of my world, part of the way things are to me. Miriam Toews
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By and large, I think that comics work seriously hard. Many have other jobs as well, plus you never really switch off, so you're always working. Amy Hoggart
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I like writing comic pages, discovering the rhythm of the panels, learning how much you can and can't express. It's good to stretch myself as a writer instead of always doing prose work; I write screenplays for the same reason. Chris Wooding
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I'm constantly trying to mine the DNA of John Constantine and stay true to that character in the comic books. Matt Ryan
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I'm a severe graphic novels junkie. People ask me about it, and I say I like the graphic novels. Comic books are for kids, and graphic novels are for adults. But you can't really separate the two. Dave Pirner
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I performed after 9/11 for relief workers down by Ground Zero. There were these men just coming back, and they were voraciously hungry. They were heroes, pulling rubble, and I was a new comic trying to go blue just so I could get some laughs. Chelsea Peretti
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I had a lot of ideas on how comics worked and pretty early on I had this idea that it would be fun to explain them in comics form. Scott McCloud
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I highly commend Tim Todd for designing The Truth for Youth Bible. The spectacular comics deal with important issues that today's youth are faced with and it is making an eternal impact in our schools and around the country. Michael Reagan
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I didn't read comic books, growing up. I was more of a science fiction/fantasy novel guy. I loved reading Edgar Rice Burroughs' 'Tarzan' and that kind of stuff. Jesse L. Martin
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It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like. Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I try to mix it up. Who wants to see a comic who just goes on with one subject, such as politics, for an hour? I go in a number of different directions. When I perform, there is no subject that is taboo. Steve Hofstetter
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It's got a kind of a built-in interest factor already because everybody loves zombie movies. This is just another comic side of the zombie genre. John McLean
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It's not easy to convey to someone who doesn't read comics just how Alan Moore has dominated the field since 'Watchmen.' Susanna Clarke
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It started out as sketches of Popeye, and the old comics when I was a kid. Then one of my first paintings was of my 2 granddaughters. Then one day I told my wife I'm going to paint the presidents.