Comic Quotes

• Comic book readers are just as abandoned by the corporate system as the creators, despite the importance supposedly given their hard-earned dollars. The average comics shop can offer only a tiny fraction of an industrywide selection that is itself extremely limited in scope. And even when readers know exactly what they want, the search can be maddeningly futile.

  

  Scott McCloud
  • Book
  • Importance
  • Average

• Whole phases of comedy have become empty; the comic rejoinder has become every man's tool.

  

  Constance Rourke
  • Comedy
  • Empty
  • Tools

• The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop as it is comic book lore.

  

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad A Tribe Called Quest
  • People
  • Book
  • Hero

• Comic strips introduced me to metaphors. They are pure metaphor, so you learn how to tell a story with symbols, which is a very valuable thing to learn. And I learned that from motion pictures, too, and from poetry. Poetry is mainly metaphor. If it doesn't have a metaphor, it doesn't work.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Stories
  • Valuable
  • Metaphor

• I'm very much influenced by your traditional comic book artists like Jack Kirby, Alex Toth and Walter Simonson. Their styles were sort of what I was gravitating towards.

  

  Tim Fish
  • Influenced
  • Jack Kirby
  • Alex Toth

• It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.

  

  Ray Romano
  • Audience
  • Insecurity
  • Comic

• For reasons probably related to the popular vision of Albert Einstein and, also, the threat posed by black holes in comic books and science fiction, our gravitational wave discoveries have had an amazing public impact.

  

  Rainer Weiss
  • Amazing
  • Einstein
  • Albert

• I never go see a comic. The only one I'd ever really want to see is Don Rickles. He might be 80 years old, but he blows everyone out of the water.

  

  Andrew Dice Clay
  • Water
  • Comic
  • Blows

• In a sense the whole American comic tradition had been that of social criticism.

  

  Constance Rourke
  • Criticism
  • Social
  • Tradition

• You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.

  

  Mort Walker
  • Trying
  • Cities
  • Comic

• I've been getting in trouble my whole life and I really don't care what anybody thinks of what I do on stage as a comic.

  

  Andrew Dice Clay
  • My Life
  • Trouble
  • Comic

• There are some people who were born with good timing, and I think my comic timing is pretty solid.

  

  John Ross Bowie
  • Comic
  • Timing
  • Solid

• I started a funny book from the 1930s called The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is a comic genius.

  

  William Gurstelle
  • Book
  • Genius
  • Comic

• It's always been a dream for me to play a comic book character.

  

  Celina Jade
  • Character
  • Dream
  • Play

• I'm a frustrated stand-up comic. If you hand me a microphone and I get one laugh, then I'll go on for 20 minutes.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Laughing
  • Frustrated
  • Microphones

• Much of hip-hop, like comic books, is fantastical by nature, too.

  

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad A Tribe Called Quest
  • Book
  • Comic

• I'm pleased because as a comic I live on the fringes of an extreme society. What could be better than satirizing this insanity. People are on edge, desperate and afraid. Those who aren't are soulless or living in extreme denial, locked in a magic kingdom of their own making. As a comic I get to poke at people's bubbles! Of course I'm pleased. I get to be their mouthpiece for their rage and fear! Tremendous fun.

  

  Eddie Pepitone
  • Fun
  • Society
  • Afraid

• The nice thing with Shakespeare from a modern point of view is that a lot of stuff that was tragic for him can read as comic for us.

  

  Ryan North
  • Point
  • Comic
  • Shakespeare

• It's not like every male comic you meet is funny. Like, a lot of them are not funny.

  

  Erik Griffin
  • Funny
  • Comic

• I had been a reader of THOR in college. I had read the Stan Lee and Jack Kirby stuff. I had loved it. I had been a Norse mythology fan since I was a kid and was thrilled to discover a comic that was kind of based on Norse mythology-there's not a one-to-one correspondence, but there's no reason there should be. I was delighted to find it, and I didn't care that it wasn't exactly the myth. For one thing, Thor didn't have red hair in the comics. I was fine with that.

  

  Walt Simonson
  • Hair
  • Fan
  • Comic

• Being a stand-up comic, this isn't a stepping-stone for me; it's what I do, and this is what I'm always going to do. And even if I do a TV show, the only reasons to do a TV show is to get more people to know me to come out to my stand-up shows.

  

  Bill Burr
  • People
  • Reason
  • Comic

• From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Long
  • Remember
  • Age

• I really want to do a True Blood-Six Feet Under comic book crossover.

  

  Michael McMillian
  • Want
  • Under
  • Crossover

• My thumbprint is on every single thing that happens with Hellboy. It was the hardest thing I ever had to do professionally, letting someone else draw the main Hellboy comic. He's so much mine. But I still have no intention of ever handing over the writing of the main Hellboy comic to someone else. That character is my baby.

  

  Mike Mignola
  • Writing
  • Character
  • Intention

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