“I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.” ThinkingLooksBookKidsWantedPassionInterestImaginationFireYeahComicRealmsThis DayComic BookCartoonLitMy ImaginationPrinting Author:Nathan Fillion
“I've always loved comic books. As a kid, I used to read cowboy stories and historical comics about other worlds, unknown places that would take me out of myself and which helped to develop my imagination.” WorldBookStoriesKidsUsedImaginationHistoricalComicTake MeComic BookCowboyMy ImaginationOther Worlds Author:James Herbert
“I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.” ThinkingBookProblemKidsWantedHouseFansHugeFolksComicExpensiveLots Of MoneyComic BookBasements Author:Nathan Fillion
“Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not denying that, but let's face it. the main reason he was doing a super-hero comic was because he was working for a super-hero comic book company.” DoeBookReasonFacesGuyLevelsCompanyClassHeroSmartComicComic BookSuper HeroSmart GuyMetaphoric Author:Chester Brown
“I think the thinking is, in the comic books, I should pack as much onto a page as possible, because, you know, it's kind of the cheaper format, and you want to give readers as much as you can for their dollar.” ThinkingKnowsWantGivingShouldKindBookReaderPagesDollarsComicPacksComic BookCheaperFormat Author:Chester Brown
“The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate.” BookEasyViolenceEffectsMediaRadioComicComic BookSerialsCopycatsMedia Violence Author:Hugh Mackay
“It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.” MeanStillsBookInvolvedDrawsAdultsNotionComicInstantMainstreamComic BookEmbarrassingPreconceived Notions Author:Daniel Clowes
“As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters. They're never perfect. They're flawed people put in extraordinary circumstances.” PeopleBookCharacterPerfectWatchesAudienceCircumstancesMembersExtraordinaryComicComic BookFlawedRelatableBook CharactersComic Book Characters Author:James Badge Dale
“I got beat up by the comic-book kids when I was younger! They were cooler than me. Talk about levels of geekdom, I was a couple rungs below the kids who read comic books. Yeah. Not so cool, man.” MenBookKidsLevelsCoupleBeatsYeahComicComic Book Author:James Badge Dale
“Ultimately, there's always been a link between comic books and video games, and comic books and movies, and then basically all three steadily becoming this sort of transmedia.” BookThreeGamesBecomingVideoComicLinksComic BookBooks And Movies Author:Troy Duffy
“Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.” BookUsedHavensComicComic BookBack In The Day Author:Danai Gurira
“My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.” LongBookAgeLyingNightFatherNovelFiveMysteryTelevisionBedComicAwakeComic BookSpyAll NightMystery Novels Author:Sherman Alexie
“... Oceanic malaise. I never saw anyone reading anything more demanding than a comic book. I never heard any youth express an interest in science or art. No one even talked politics. It was all idleness, and whenever I asked someone a question, no matter how simple, no matter how well the person spoke English, there was always a long pause before I got a reply, and I found these Pacific pauses maddening. And there was giggling but no humor - no wit. It was just foolery.” WellsPersonsLongArtBookMatterCultureReadingFoundInterestSimpleSawsHeardYouthWitComicSpokesComic BookPausesIdlenessPacificMalaiseFoolery Author:Paul Theroux
“I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.” YearsBookWrittenScriptsComicComic BookAnimationSequels Author:Carl Hiaasen
“When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile.” PeopleThinkingBookAmericaComicComic BookMiceMickeyJuvenileConnotation Author:Mark Hamill
“I think 'Comic Book: The Movie' is the apex of my career in terms of making a personal statement that has significance to me and resonates with biographical detail about not only my career, but all the people that I've worked with in my career. All of it's riddled, on- and off-camera, with people I've known and worked with for decades.” PeopleThinkingBookTermKnownCareersCamerasDetailsDecadesStatementsComicSignificanceComic BookAnd OffApexPersonal Statement Author:Mark Hamill
“I will say that comic books are not the easiest things to translate to film, number one. Even the most well meaning of filmmakers find what's acceptable on the printed page is very difficult to bring to film.” WellsBookFilmDifficultNumbersPagesComicFilmmakerAcceptableTranslateComic BookPrinted Author:Mark Hamill
“When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.” ThinkingLongBookKidsArtistMusicianLong TimeComicComic Book Author:Daniel Johnston
“I read 'Scarlett' recently, and that was a killer comic book. The 'Black Widow' was pretty rockin'. There is a big list of killer chicks that are just rockin'.” BookBigsBlackListsComicKillersComic BookChicksWidowsBlack Widow Author:Stana Katic