“I'm in a comic book now. That was cool. That's something that I'm still sorta reeling about, 'cause I read comics as a kid. Someone drew me, and actually did a pretty good job!” StillsBookKidsJobsCausesComicComic BookGood Job Author:Rutina Wesley
“I always start drawing any job by planning out to some degree the locales and trying to nail the characters. If they're existing characters, I'll draw them several times on rough paper just to get a feeling for them. The ideal when you're drawing a comic is to have everything in your head, not to have to refer to notes.” IfsTryingCharacterFeelingsJobsDegreesPaperDrawsIdealsNotesDrawingPlanningComicRoughNails Author:Dave Gibbons
“I need to go where I'm not comfortable. I think that's the artist's job.” ThinkingNeedsBookJobsArtistComfortableComicComic Book Author:Kelly Sue DeConnick
“Stan Lee always wanted to do another syndicated strip while we were doing Spider-Man. I was working two jobs, and he wanted to make time to do another strip. He wanted to do a humor strip. I said, 'Stan, I barely make it through the week now. How the hell am I going to do another strip?' He said, 'Oh, I'm sorry, I always forget it takes you longer to do a page than it takes me to do twenty pages.'” MenSaidTwoBookWantedJobsForgetHellWeekPagesTwentiesSorryComicTake MeComic BookI'm SorrySpidersForget ItMaking TimeSpider ManTwo Jobs Author:John Romita, Sr.
“When I went to Stan Lee - every time I was with Stan, I learned something every day. When I would do a pencil job, if I didn't have much faith in it I would hand it in and invariably Stan would make it look like it was a well-written and well-planned-out story. It made me tell people, 'If you want to become an artist, go to work at Marvel. Stan will turn you into a storyteller.'” PeopleIfsWantWellsLooksMadeBookStoriesHandsJobsArtistTurnsWrittenComicComic BookStorytellerPencilsWell Written Author:John Romita, Sr.
“It's an interesting job, it's a fascinating job, I can't imagine anything that would have given me more satisfaction, and not everything I did was awful, but it was just writing another story in a world that's full of stories.” WorldWritingI CanBookStoriesJobsGivenInterestingImagineSatisfactionAwfulComicFascinatingComic Book Author:Dennis O'Neil
“I find that if somebody is writing and drawing a comic book, planning it to be a movie and a game at the same time tends to lead to a pretty lame job.” IfsWritingBookJobsGamesDrawingPlanningComicComic BookLame Author:Frank Miller
“All I thought about when I wrote my stories was, "I hope that these comic books would sell so I can keep my job and continue to pay the rent." Never in a million years could I have imagined that it would turn into what it has evolved into nowadays. Never.” YearsI CanBookStoriesJobsTurnsPayMillionsSellsComicComic Book Author:Stan Lee