Famous Quotes & Sayings

These are things kids struggle with every day, ... and these comics are a format that will grab their attention, then turn them toward biblical principles and truths.

Gene Luen Yang

I started 'American Born Chinese' as a mini-comic. I would write and draw a chapter, photocopy a hundred or so copies at the corner photocopy store, and then try to sell them on consignment through local comics shops. If I could sell maybe half a dozen, I'd be doing okay.

Jeff Lemire

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.

Seth

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.

Geoff Johns

I put my comics that are really valuable into regular mylar because I like to look at them. Once they're in those clam shell boxes, they're impossible to open up.

Amy Hoggart

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.

Superman has been my favorite character since I was six years old, and I have more comics featuring Superman than any other single character.

There were a lot of comics out there who we love whose half-hours were five, six, seven years old.

Harvey Pekar

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.

Scott McCloud

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.

Gilbert Gottfried

Not paying the comics a dime -- that's Penn's greatest magic trick,

Anthony Jeselnik

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.

Michael Reagan

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.

Garry Trudeau

Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback.

Josh Helman

The great thing about 'X-Men' is that it takes characters that are quite firmly established in the comics and puts them in new contexts.

Robert Crumb

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.

Scott McCloud

Comics is a powerful idea, but an idea that's been squandered, ignored and misunderstood for generations,

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

Comics are in my blood. It's my strange addiction, and I love it.

Seth

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.

Comics are about the illusion of movement, and movies are about movement itself.

Doug TenNapel

The difference between graphic novels and web comics is even greater than graphic novels and story boarding. Web comics really is a legitimately separate genre.