Quotes On Comics

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. [+]

I live in fear of becoming a crusty older artist who’s jaded about the new stuff, and can’t abstract themselves from the situation to see that webcomics, to take one example, or the latest generation of indy cartoonists, that aren’t doing what you were twenty years ago, have value to them. [+]

I’m not interested in laying out a theory about how comics or the world works. [+]

I think people are skeptical about experimental stuff like I’m doing, like it’s only a dry experiment with no flesh to it. [+]

Some comics would be hard to read on a computer screen or an iPhone screen. [+]

Comics are a slow process. [+]

Being around kids, I have to constantly justify my beliefs in what makes comics good. [+]

When it comes down to it, comics are one of the most labor-intensive and skills-intensive art forms there are. [+]

We are definitely living in a visual culture and comics offer a key to becoming literate in a mode of communication that combines the verbal and the visual into a (more or less) seamless whole. [+]