Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kym Whitley

I'm always fighting with profanity and Christian comedy. I'm telling you, it's always a fight. Because my father said to me, he said, 'Well, Kym, I feel like comics and people that use profanity, you have a lack of vocabulary, actually, a whole lot.'

John Ridley

If there are two kinds of people in the world - DC Comics people and Marvel Comics people - what kind am I? Well, to be honest... I'm a Wildstorm kinda guy. In the interest of full and fair disclosure, I write for Wildstorm. But even if I didn't, I'd love what they do. No, seriously, I'd love their stuff.

Nelson Mandela

My hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead the youth to the joy of reading good books. That joy has been mine all my life, and it is one I wish for all South Africans.

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

One of my comics is read by more people - around 70,000 - than will see my entire run at Manhattan Theater Club. That puts things in perspective.

Jack Whitehall

Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won't be met by silence.

Showing the Marvel comics is a good way to hook kids into scientific learning. They will remember it and be inspired to learn about the science involved.

Jason Alexander

Most stand-up comics relish performing 'in one' - solo. They like the autonomy.

Dennis Franz

Leave It to Beaver.' I could relate to being that age. It also kind of was an ideal world, at least at that time. I look at it now, and it wasn't very politically correct. But I felt all warm and fuzzy when watching the show. I used to read Little Lulu comics for the same reason. It was just a perfect world.

Jim Lee

Many in the creative professions were nerds in their pasts because they spent so long reading comics and using their imaginations when they were growing up.

Steve Hofstetter

So many comics have this view of 'Oh, he gets work, he took that work away from me,'

When I was auditioning for 'Gotham,' I got a handful of comics from different decades, so I had a perspective - it's been around for 75 years, which is a long time.

Motion comics take the underlying physical book material and enhance or modify it slightly enough to make it unique and, we think, best-suited for a digital environment.

My love of comics did start with anime.

If they come into the library, they're reading. It doesn't matter if they're reading comics or easy horror stories.

Jeff Lindsay

Marvel Comics has always been a place where I felt at home. It has been a very important part of my life and has always been a wellspring of creative and relevant ideas.

Garry Trudeau

Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback.

Superman has been my favorite character since I was six years old, and I have more comics featuring Superman than any other single character.

Anthony Jeselnik

I'm not just offensive, I'm very smart about the way that I do it, and that takes a lot of time. People say that young comics shouldn't be trying these things. That's ridiculous. You should try everything and see what sticks.

Gilbert Gottfried

Not paying the comics a dime -- that's Penn's greatest magic trick,

Harvey Pekar

I've gotten more and more cut off from the regular comic-book world, from straight comics and stuff like that. Once in a while, I'll take a look at something.

Adam McKay

In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about it, and I think you had comics that were comics.

Gene Weingarten

I have two favorites: Reading Kierkegaard while listening to Mozart's Piano Concerto 9 in E Flat Major, and reading early Bazooka Joe comics in Hebrew.

Garry Trudeau

In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over.

Gene Luen Yang

I minored in creative writing in college, and I've played with the idea of doing something more hybrid, but comics are my first love.

Scott McCloud

Comics is a powerful idea, but an idea that's been squandered, ignored and misunderstood for generations,

Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

Comics are in my blood. It's my strange addiction, and I love it.

Seth

Comics are given serious attention now and I'm quite surprised. You see them reviewed in major newspapers and exhibited in serious museums. I wouldn't have predicted it.

Comics are about the illusion of movement, and movies are about movement itself.

There were a lot of comics out there who we love whose half-hours were five, six, seven years old.

Sinbad

People think comedians don't do drama. Comics are drama. And what is drama, as opposed to comedy? It's all the same to me.

Gene Luen Yang

I started 'American Born Chinese' as a mini-comic. I would write and draw a chapter, photocopy a hundred or so copies at the corner photocopy store, and then try to sell them on consignment through local comics shops. If I could sell maybe half a dozen, I'd be doing okay.

Jeff Lemire

I've been reading comics since I was four. I used to get them when I would go grocery shopping with my mom. I remember getting the digest versions of old DC comics. The one that I remember reading first was Paul Levitz' 'Justice Society of America' stuff that he was doing in the '70s.

Seth

When I started out in the eighties, the idea of creating serious comics for adults was pretty laughable to most folks, and for the longest time it was hard to even explain what alternative comics or graphic novels were. Nobody seemed to understand or care. Not so, any longer.