Quotes On Comics

Is there a best part about being a cartoonist?

Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.

Online, pages get to crackle in a different way.

The world of comic book readers is an insular world, and it’s also an annoying male world.

Comic artists have been devalued to the point where you could argue public perception is of them as almost secondary creators, and certainly fungible ones in the comic creation mix.

One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice.

I like to think of comics as not tied to paper or books.

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.

It has occurred to me that the superhero really only originates in America.

100 million dollars – that’s what they spent on the Watchmen film which nearly didn’t come out because of the lawsuit, that’s what they spent on The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen which shouldn’t have come out but did anyway.