Quotes On Comics

“Cartoonist” doesn’t sound right in America.

The secret of being a successful comic book editor is the same as being a successful movie director: you hire the right people.

Don’t get sucked into thinking of yourself as a professional.

The term graphic novel as a marketing moniker geared towards adults who are scared of comics.

To me back then, the cartoon was like Shakespeare blown up.

Comics criticism doesn’t actually need more people who are interested in comics (that is a given considering the insular nature of the hobby); what it needs is people who are interested in criticism.

If you’re creating a strip and people are enjoying it who cares whether it’s in print or on the web.

Neal Adams kind — and that includes Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, and my own father, God rest his soul, none of these men had a nanosecond’s patience with self-pity.

Graphic novel is a red herring name — something that was come up with to provide a more respectable term for comic book.

It’s at the literary end of comics you sense a narrowing of the range, the main strand being a sort of studied Pekarian drabness.