Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jim Lee

Part of running DC Comics is that it's much larger than Image Comics is, or was. There's a challenge to being one of the industry leaders in that everything you do is scrutinized and watched.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.

Jim Lee

People who liked the 'Arkham Asylum' video game can Google comics to download.

I was a big 'MAD Magazine' fan when I was a kid, and I read a lot of horror comics - I illustrated as well.

Just about everything put out by Top Shelf and Drawn & Quarterly and Fantagraphics is what I keep up with. And once in a while, I'll read the more mainstream comics - I like Grant Morrison's writing and some of Warren Ellis' stuff, although maybe they're more on the fringe of the mainstream.

D. J. Cotrona

I think that, ultimately, there are so many characters in G.I. Joe that even all the iterations - the comics and the different cartoons and everything - have been a big ensemble. Lots of crossing storylines and stuff.

Jeff Ross

I think comics should test people, I think it's our job to go too far. That way we know as a society what too far is. Where else are you going to hear it?

Julie Klausner

I think Joan Rivers is such an untapped legend that people just don't appreciate, because they grew up with her on QVC, or they grew up with her on E!, or they grew up watching her do the things that in their minds the more prestigious comics wouldn't have taken or done.

Adam Hughes

I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job.

Judy Gold

Joan Rivers was a role model to comics everywhere, but especially to women. She got the first laugh and the last laugh.

Jason David Frank

I'm a huge Marvel Comics fan, and I'm a huge 'Wolverine' fan, I like the 'X-Men' comic book.

If they come into the library, they're reading. It doesn't matter if they're reading comics or easy horror stories.

When I was auditioning for 'Gotham,' I got a handful of comics from different decades, so I had a perspective - it's been around for 75 years, which is a long time.

Motion comics take the underlying physical book material and enhance or modify it slightly enough to make it unique and, we think, best-suited for a digital environment.

My love of comics did start with anime.

Nelson Mandela

My hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead the youth to the joy of reading good books. That joy has been mine all my life, and it is one I wish for all South Africans.

Kurt Busiek

When I realized that people actually wrote comics, that it was a job people could do, I thought, 'Gee, these things are only 17 pages long! I could probably finish one of those and find out whether I suck before I've spent five years of my life on it.' In stumbling into comics that way, I discovered that I loved the form.

Kym Whitley

I'm always fighting with profanity and Christian comedy. I'm telling you, it's always a fight. Because my father said to me, he said, 'Well, Kym, I feel like comics and people that use profanity, you have a lack of vocabulary, actually, a whole lot.'

John Ridley

If there are two kinds of people in the world - DC Comics people and Marvel Comics people - what kind am I? Well, to be honest... I'm a Wildstorm kinda guy. In the interest of full and fair disclosure, I write for Wildstorm. But even if I didn't, I'd love what they do. No, seriously, I'd love their stuff.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

One of my comics is read by more people - around 70,000 - than will see my entire run at Manhattan Theater Club. That puts things in perspective.

Jack Whitehall

Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won't be met by silence.

Showing the Marvel comics is a good way to hook kids into scientific learning. They will remember it and be inspired to learn about the science involved.

Jason Alexander

Most stand-up comics relish performing 'in one' - solo. They like the autonomy.

Dennis Franz

Leave It to Beaver.' I could relate to being that age. It also kind of was an ideal world, at least at that time. I look at it now, and it wasn't very politically correct. But I felt all warm and fuzzy when watching the show. I used to read Little Lulu comics for the same reason. It was just a perfect world.

Jim Lee

Many in the creative professions were nerds in their pasts because they spent so long reading comics and using their imaginations when they were growing up.

Steve Hofstetter

So many comics have this view of 'Oh, he gets work, he took that work away from me,'

Don Rickles

Compared to what some of the young comics use for material today, I'm a priest.

Brian K. Vaughan

I remember when I was a kid and I would go to the comic-book store, I would have no idea what was going on in that month's issues. Sometimes I wouldn't even know what comics were coming out until I walked into the store.

Brandon Routh

My interests were in fantasy more than comics growing up.

Charles Soule

I like learning things, and I like that writing comics is an excuse to look into new stuff and research and learn new things and hopefully put them in books.

Chris Hemsworth

I hadn't read comics really before coming in to shooting the original 'Thor.' During that and beforehand, I read stacks and got my head around it all. We reference, especially when we were putting the script together before we started shooting, other stories.

Geoff Johns

I don't know who made the first Aquaman joke. I'm sure it was comics readers; maybe we all did. But it's the idea that the perpetuated story of Aquaman is that he only has powers in water, and he talks to fish. I think it's the idea of him in the middle of a city just doesn't make a lot of sense to people. It's just the character itself.

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.