Comic Quotes
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You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage.
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When you're a comic, it's like being born gay. It's what you want to do every night when your other friends are out at night going to parties.
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I really want to do a True Blood-Six Feet Under comic book crossover.
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Comics are carried by characters. If a character is well-created, the comic becomes a hit.
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We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.
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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.
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It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.
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An English philosopher said that whatever is cosmic is also comic. Do the best you can and don't take it so seriously.
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For most of my career I did one comic a day, every day, including weekends and holidays.
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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.
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Spidey was the one comic I read consistently throughout my childhood. As someone who grew up a nerd, scrawny, and picked on in high school, I related very strongly to Peter Parker.
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The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.
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My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.
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If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out with comic friends - or bringing a basic idea on stage and seeing if it goes anywhere.
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I didn't read comics, growing up. I watched a lot of movies, and those were my comic books. And then, my exposure really increased by becoming affiliated with Spider-Man.
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One of the exciting things about producing a comic is seeing the artist stamp his own interpretation on it.
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The good thing about being shy though as a child is that you become very observant because you're not really actively participating. You're sitting back watching everyone. I think that's really helped me as an actress because I'm good at observing people and then copying them for comic effect.
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A really good stand-up comic is a poet; it's about the use of language. It can be really poetic. And I like politically conscious comedy.
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I didn't want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.
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I decided honestly that comic art is an art form in itself. It reflects the life and times more accurately and actually is more artistic than magazine illustration - since it is entirely creative. An illustrator works with camera and models; a comic artist begins with a white sheet of paper and dreams up his own business - he is playwright, director, editor and artist at once.
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Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic element works as a surprise. It is unexpected and energizing.
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Hellboy was entirely the comic I wish someone much more talented than I was doing, because I would have been a huge fan of that comic. But nobody was doing it, so it fell to me to do it.
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There are some people who were born with good timing, and I think my comic timing is pretty solid.
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Some people are worried about the future of comics and some people are busy building it. That latter group are my heroes.
