Quotes On Comics

I identify with the Joker to a certain extent—at least the way I write him, which is as this cosmic fool.

I like doing bad things to good characters.

I don’t read much of other people’s work.

By the time I got to college I wanted to be a fine artist, and the emphasis is on fine.

Publish or perish.

I decided at age 12 to do comics and I became unemployable after that, because “eyes on the prize”.

Films do share some comic book characteristics, but it’s still a different medium.

The term graphic novel as a marketing moniker geared towards adults who are scared of comics.

The day I signed the contract for “Hellboy” [the movie], I went home and created a new character because, on the off chance that things turned out to be horrible — all those stories I had for Hellboy, I needed another place to put them.

I see way too many young artists who are just trying to draw like they’ve always seen in comics.