Quotes On Comics

The graphic purity of the superhero costume means that the more effort and money you lavish on fine textiles, metal grommets, and leather trim the deeper your costume will be sucked into the silliness singularity that swallowed, for example, Joel Schumacher’s Batman and Robin and their four nipples.

Comics are long-running enough, and enough of a group effort, that every single character has multiple personalities, multiple moments of badassery, and multiple failures.

Comics must be the only art form where the most prominent commentators in the field (who shall remain nameless) regularly dismiss or deprioritize discussions of the art form they are engaging in.

In superhero comics, people can literally get away with anything, as long as they can think of it and find somebody who can draw it.

A natural scientist who had looked over comic books expressed this to me tersely, ‘In comic books life is worth nothing; there is no dignity of a human being’.

My favorite comics are mine – I’m the only one writing the plots complicated and multi-faceted enough to rivet my attention.

Cartoonists count.