When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could viably have gone, that they didn't have to follow 'Watchmen' and the other 1980s books down this relentlessly dark route. It was never my intention to start a trend for darkness. I'm not a particularly dark individual.
Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other practitioners.
I went to art school, and that's how I got the internship, and then I started a band. But I always missed comics, I always wanted to do them.
Too many comics today ramble. By the time they get to the punch line, the audience has either gone to sleep, gone to the bathroom or gone to bed.
I had a publisher who felt comics were just for little kiddies, so he never wanted me to use words of more than two syllables.
Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer.
I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.
Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.
I know "accessibility" is a term that's kind of thrown around wantonly today, especially with talking about visual media. But I think that the strength of comics [is how they] really allow you to transcend those last barriers between a reader absorbing the information of an experience, and a reader being able to project themselves into the [experience of the] people about whom they're reading.
I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.
You couldn't have small, dying children in a movie without really bringing everyone down, but you can in comics.
We as comics do want an immediate response from the audience. It's really quiet on the set, and there are only the producers, and the director, so a comic is looking for someone to give a reaction, even if it is the camera guy.
Anything really well-made has the effect of making you want to do what you do-better. Abrams has always made very beautiful books. It's exciting to see this same excellence applied to the presentation of comics. Abrams ComicArts shows comics are stepping out of vaudeville and into Carnegie Hall-but the Marx Brothers will always be welcome!
I had thought comics could only be one thing, and that was what mainstream comics were selling us. And the undergrounders proved anything you had in your head, as long as you had the skill to put it down on paper, was fair game. And I started filling sketchbooks with my own comics.
Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the '70s
They are not testing comics for drugs. If our job is dependent on that, there would be three working comics in the country, and two of them would have puppets.
I was a fan of the 'Dredd' comics when I was a teenager.
Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.
I'm a comic geek, I love playing video games and I love reading comics.
There's the shared imagery between hip-hop and comics, with some producers and emcees taking on super hero personas.