Quotes On Comics

I was reading Marshall McLuhan, and he said that every form, when it is no longer a mass medium, has to become an art or disappear.

I’ve been a fan of superheroes since I was a kid.

Cartooning is the most extreme form of cruelty allowed in civilized countries.

If we take away everything you hate about Superman, is there anything left that you like?

Reading a graphic novel is at once a complex and instinctive act.

Watchmen was fun, but also incredibly pretentious — a word that hardly applies anymore to high culture, but sure comes in handy when dealing with pop culture’s more desperate efforts to be taken seriously.

Since “Superman” was created by a couple of Jewish kids from Cleveland, that makes him Jewish.

The beautiful thing about comics being decently below the mainstream radar is that you [as an author] have no excuse and no pressure to hold back.

I’ve been close to nervous breakdown, sheer exhaustion, or profound existential crisis several times doing this stuff, and somehow, I always bounce back refreshed with new ideas.

Comics are [for the normal child] a means of healthful ego-strengthening and a source of amusement.