Quotes On Comics

Anyone can publish now, and there are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. [+]

Peanuts is long overdue for a serious reappraisal. [+]

The visual attraction of the comics is largely a thing of the past. [+]

A beautiful strip like Pogo would be impossible to read at today’s sizes. [+]

To save space, newsprint, and money, newspapers have been reducing the size of comics for years. [+]

New cartoonists don’t have to reinvent the wheel. [+]

I’m convinced that licensing would sell out the soul of Calvin and Hobbes. [+]

I have no interest in turning my characters into commodities. [+]

Form follows function, as the architects say. [+]

Repetition is the death of magic. [+]

Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist — how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms! [+]

The comics were invented for commercial purposes. [+]

We’ve got too many comic strip corpses being propped up and passed for living by new cartoonists who ought to be doing something of their own. [+]

As comic strips are printed smaller and smaller, the drawings and dialogue have to get simpler and simpler to stay legible. [+]

Characters are more important than jokes. [+]