Quotes On Comics

The single image is the vital component of the comics medium, just as the single note is the vital component of music, the single frame the vital component of film.

One picture does not a comic make.

It is and remains my contention that the true lover of the medium is not the sycophantic fan who adores the good and the bad with equal fervor, but the discriminating, hard-nosed reader who refuses to tolerate the mediocre and the banal.

‘Comics readers can be really parochial’ would be the mean way of putting it, but the fact is, comics are such a complex set of subtle visual and verbal codes that it’s easy to get thrown off by quirks in each continent’s approach to the medium, the same way that manga rubs a lot of…

There’s simply a style and level of craftsmanship in the best of the Franco-Belgian classics that is nowhere to be found nowadays.