Comic Quotes

• 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.

  

  Alex Raymond
  • Art
  • Artistic
  • Comic

• I make people laugh hard; I'm a comic, that's just the way it is. And I make them laugh because I'm funny, not because I'm filthy. The subject matter is dirty, but the pictures I paint are really funny. A lot of comics don't understand that that's what it's about. It's just, "I'll be dirty and they'll laugh." Nobody's becoming a superstar that way.

  

  Andrew Dice Clay
  • Understand
  • Laugh
  • Comic

• You can't throw a rock without a comic book character falling out of a tree.

  

  Morena Baccarin
  • Character
  • Rocks
  • Comic

• It felt like a huge risk when I first started putting my comic online. It was very scary to put myself out there that way and to open up something that I cared about very dearly - and to be the only creator involved with it.

  

  Noelle Stevenson
  • Risk
  • Comic
  • Online

• I didn't want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.

  

  Judy Gold
  • Gay
  • Happens
  • Comic

• 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.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Night
  • Party
  • Gay

• A lot of times I play the villain or the comic relief, and I get to kind of play the comic relief to a degree, which is fun, but I also get to say, "You are created in the image in God. You are a perfect child of God. And this part of you is the heart of who you are. You're not alone, and you're okay just the way you are."

  

  Missi Pyle
  • Children
  • Heart
  • Perfect

• Authenticity, for me, was important, because it made the reader feel ‘This is real This is not just a comic book

  

  Gene Colan
  • Book
  • Authenticity
  • Comic

• 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.

  

  Josh Keaton
  • Childhood
  • Comic
  • Spider

• It's a lot easier to say you're a comic than a performance artist.

  

  Paul Reubens
  • Artist
  • Easier
  • Comic

• I'm not Christian. I didn't meet Jesus. I met something that looked like it had come out of a 'Heavy Metal' comic.

  

  Richard Stanley
  • Comic
  • Heavy
  • Looked

• Pirates are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense.

  

  Ray Stevenson
  • People
  • Victim
  • Pirate

• My parents read the comics to me, and I fell in love with comic strips. I've collected them all of my life. I have a complete collection of all the "Buck Rogers" Sunday funnies and daily paper strips, I have all of "Prince Valiant" put away, all of "Tarzan," which appeared in the Sunday funnies in 1932 right on up through high school. So I've learned a lot from reading comics as a child.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Children
  • School
  • Reading

• 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.

  

  Emma Stone
  • Movies
  • Comic
  • Comic Books

• The big problem for comic art is you don't want to overwork it. If a drawing is overworked it isn't funny. It's the spontaneity that keeps a work fresh and funny. If they can see how hard you work, if they can see the beads of sweat, it's no good. I always try to make it look easy.

  

  Edward Sorel
  • Work
  • Art
  • Problem

• I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.

  

  Steve Martin
  • Comedy
  • Fame
  • Heroic

• There are writers who will do whatever they are told regardless of the circumstances - these are called 'hacks.' Your job isn't to make life difficult for your editor. But once a piece of crap goes out with your name on it, it is gone forever and will haunt you.

  

  Gail Simone
  • Forever
  • Circumstances
  • Names

• Some people are worried about the future of comics and some people are busy building it. That latter group are my heroes.

  

  Gail Simone
  • Book
  • Building
  • Busy

• I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.

  

  Ray Romano
  • Audience
  • Because
  • Insecurity

• Sometimes, I read that I'm this leftwing comic who just goes on about politics the whole time. Other times, I read that it's just surreal nonsense about crisps. It's both of those.

  

  Stewart Lee
  • Politics
  • Comic
  • Nonsense

• I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.

  

  Judith Butler
  • I Think
  • Position
  • Comic

• One of the exciting things about producing a comic is seeing the artist stamp his own interpretation on it.

  

  Matt Smith Poison
  • Comic
  • Interpretation
  • Artist Stamp

• When you're writing TV or movies your vernacular is time, it's all based on rhythms, a character takes a beat or two characters have a moment, like everything is about time. And when you're writing a comic, everything is about space. It's how many panels to put on a page, when should you do a full page splash, what is the detail that you see in any particular image.

  

  Eric Kripke
  • Writing
  • Characters
  • Image

• A young comic, if he's any good, can easily get on 'Carson' or 'Griffin' or 'Dinah Shore,' because they want to say the same thing, that they discovered the new talent.

  

  Norm Crosby
  • Young
  • Talent
  • Comic

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