Quotes On Comics

Comics take a hell of a lot of focus but for most people there’s not a lot of reward in it.

Traditional comic books are cheap, stubbornly low-tech and sometimes slow moving.

Q: Who is America’s Best Comic-Book Critic?

The writers are getting to be so esoteric that you pick up a [comic] book and you have to get 5 or 6 pages in before you know what the hell’s going on, because everybody is like in the middle of a sentence.

The sinister thing about these publications, is that they introduce an element of pleasure into violence and encourage sadism in association with unhealthy sexual stimulation.

Comics can be a serious art form but you can’t treat it like a vegetable — “eat it, it’s good for you” — that won’t work.

Back when I wrote Watchmen I still trusted the viperous bastards, I had a different feeling about American superhero comics and what they meant.

[…] cartoonists are an especially bunch to work with, in that there’s no money in this.

“A picture is worth a thousand words.” What do you have then when several such pictures are aligned together in sequential form?

I was very talented, I was a trailblazer and I was a fuckface and an asshole.