Quotes On Comics

I feel compelled – sometimes pressured – to tweet stories of the religious identity of the officer who died saving the lives of journalists in France.

Here [USA], comic books are usually considered to be for somebody not yet intellectually mature or someone who will never be intellectually mature, but in Japan, for example, there is a long tradition of graphic novels dating back to the 18th century.

Our culture has conditioned us to take Dick Tracy with a straight face.

There’ve been lots of rotten novels and paintings, and zillions of rotten comics.

Comics, unlike most other media, doesn’t yet (and may never) have a broad-based cultural acceptance in this country.

I don’t really like to talk about my comics.

Thinking of comicbooks in terms of the “popular” indicates a refusal or an inability to engage with many of the medium’s varied forms of representations, since it undermines the complexity of the ways in which comics may be understood and the range of meanings it can produce.