“I had been writing comic books for years and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults. And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic... And those were all things I hated.” WritingYearsChildrenBookStoriesYoungFeltStupidPleaseAdultsComicHatedComic BookPublishersYoung Children Author:Stan Lee
“Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.” ChildrenActingAdultsComicDevices Author:Seth MacFarlane
“That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto, whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that's respectable for adults to read.” WorldHas BeensBookIdeasLostNovelMediaAdultsDuesComicCommerceComic BookAspireRespectableGraphicGhettoGraphic Novels Author:Adrian Tomine
“The Daredevil comic book was the first comic book Marvel had ever put out that was an adult R-rated book, so I started with that. When I was creating the series, I just started with that tone, and that edge, and it just kept going.” FirstsBookCreatingAdultsSeriesEdgesComicToneComic BookDaredevil Author:Melissa Rosenberg
“One of the best things about reading comic books, when you're a kid or an adult, is watching the characters cross-over. What happens in one book affects the other, and these shows are so tightly knit that it feels like one giant show.” FeelsBookCharacterShowsHappensKidsReadingAdultsCrossesComicBest ThingsGiantsComic Book Author:Andrew Kreisberg
“I was just a guy who did adult or alternative comic books. And then suddenly to be, like, a New Yorker cover artist was a different thing.” BookDifferentArtistGuyAdultsComicAlternativesDifferent ThingsComic BookNew Yorkers Author:Adrian Tomine
“When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.” WayWritingFirstsLittlesDifferentNovelFiveFourAdultsDrawingMysteriousComicDifferent WaysGrandmotherMy GrandmotherTypewritersHandwritingComic StripsScribbles Author:Joyce Carol Oates