Quotes On Comics

Vulgar, vulgar, vulgar, vulgar, vulgar!

Blacks and women were second-class citizens in comic books of the postwar decade — blacks, because they were either seldom seen or servile; women, because they depended so frequently upon the good offices of men.

The older generation of cartoonists thought of themselves as entertainers who were paid to sell newspapers.

What I do is create images, period.

Underground comics are very small compared to Playboy, but we’re our own bosses.

Comics are a belittling art.

In Kathmandu there’s this temple with 365 steps, one for each day of the year, and apparently if you can go up in a single breath, you’re guaranteed enlightenment.

100 million dollars – that’s what they spent on the Watchmen film which nearly didn’t come out because of the lawsuit, that’s what they spent on The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen which shouldn’t have come out but did anyway.

In comics, very little happens accidentally.

When a fan commented that he was “exhausted” of reading Superman’s origin over and over again, [Grant] Morrison recommended that maybe he take a break from superhero comics, because “superhero comics are supposed to be fun” and “you should get exhausted by walking up stairs, not reading superhero comics.”