Comics Quotes
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Here's what I wish people wouldn't ask me: "Who are your influences?" That's a boring question. It's not even like, "What's it like to be a woman in comedy?" That question also happens often in interviews, but I at least understand where it's coming from. "Who are your influences" - I wonder if people ask that of male comics? Maybe they do.
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I've always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history.
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The most frustrating part of working in TV and film is that you have to convince someone to let you make what you want; in comics you can do whatever you want and for 1% of the budget of TV and film.
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Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer.
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People are religious about comics the way people are religious about the Bible.
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It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing.
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I believe that comics are entirely for entertainment.
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Just make the comics you want to see, and people will notice.
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All the subject matter I talk about isn't new; all comics talk about the same things. But it's how you talk about them or present them or what you look like up there that makes the difference between an okay comic and a great one.
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I love comics, and I can't imagine life without them. I love newspaper comics.
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At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics.
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I knew that I always wanted to keep making music, but I knew that comics needed to be a part of my life.
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Every city you go to has television and radio talk shows that are dying to give young comics a showcase. They all want to be able to say that so-and-so started here, got his first break on this show.
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I started going to the open mics every day in 2003. You make the comics laugh, they get you work, and you build up your reputation. It was a slow process.
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Comics don't like to see other comics do well.
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I always loved as a kid reading 'Spider-Man,' and the 'Fantastic Four' would show up... it was all about that larger universe.
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People have a hard time reading my comics. I think I leave things out, but I feel you should.
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Being online works really well for any creative work, but especially comics.
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The reason that there are so few women comics is that so few women can bear being laughed at.
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I'm in awe of comics that do things that I can't do, or haven't tried doing yet.
