Quotes On Comics

One of the most blatant signs that a creative team is about to waste my time occurs when the first issue of a brand new comic series that hasn’t existed in any previous incarnation opens with a page showing the faces of all the characters and little blurbs that explain their personalities and motivations.

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.

Because of our puritan heritage, we [the british] often think comics are just for children and we should grow out of them, or balloons aren’t real reading.

There are times when a beautiful image makes sense as good storytelling in ways that are not easily explained.

Comics are a visual medium, which means you have to trust your images to be able to tell your story.

I had been producing comic books for 15-year-old cretins from Kansas, [now I want to aim for] a 55-year-old who had his wallet stolen on the subway.

Put out a story that you think is good, that’s your job.

One thing I like about comics is, if you need to, you can really get away with just the basics in terms of materials.

Comics have different levels of sophistication for different age groups.

Modern comics are almost universally full-coloured in Britain and America, but for over a century black and white was the only real choice for most mass market publishers – additional (colour) plates being just too expensive for shoe-string operations to indulge in.