Quotes about comics
Bill Watterson - The Essential Calvin and Hobbes: A Calvin and Hobbes Treasury
The world isn't fair, Calvin.""I know Dad, but why isn't it ever unfair in my favor?
Warren Ellis - Vol. 5: Lonely City
Did you ever want to set someone's head on fire, just to see what it looked like? Did you ever stand in the street and think to yourself, I could make that nun go blind just by giving her a kiss? Did you ever lay out plans for stitching babies and stray cats into a Perfect New Human? Did you ever stand naked surrounded by people who want your gleaming sperm, squirting frankincense, soma and testosterone from every pore? If so, then you're the bastard who stole my drugs Friday night. And I'll fin
Warren Ellis -
Dance like you're stamping on a human face forever, love like you've been in a serious car crash that minced the front of your brain, stab like no one can arrest you, and live like there's no such thing as God.
Kasie West - Pivot Point
My bookcase is all yours."I walked to the door. "I've just decided that those are my favorite five words in the world.
Bill Watterson -
Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!
Mark Waid -
Socrates should have written comics.
Peter Parker -
All those years I thought that it was power that brought responsibility. It's not. I was wrong.It's responsibility that brings power. It's knowing what needs to be done that brings strength. And courage.
Kurt Busiek - Superman: Secret Identity
Maybe I had a "secret identity", but then when you think about it, don't we all? A part of ourselves very few people ever get to see. The part we think of as "me". The part that deals with the big stuff. Makes the real choices. The part everything else is a reflection of.
Ariel Schrag - Likewise: The High School Comic Chronicles of Ariel Schrag
I thought about how all that mattered, in all entirety, and all I wanted, and all I could see anything being worth anything for, was being a writer.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.
Neil Gaiman - Dream Country
For some folks death is release, and for others death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them.
Sanhita Baruah -
In the midst of the vagaries of life, they provide us a trip to the land of goodness and fairies, of imaginations and possibilities.A childhood that wasn't spent watching cartoons or reading comic strips, no wonder, seems too dull to imagine.
Scott McCloud - Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.
John Heffernan -
Because that’s what a comic is, ultimately: a collection of pages. It’s not a flatpanel or a touchscreen, even though that’s where it might eventually be displayed. It’s a page.
Charles M. Schulz - Charlie Brown
That has to be the most embarrassing thing that's ever happened to me in my whole life.
Charles M. Schulz - Charlie Brown
Lucy's polls were sometimes kind of violent.
Dave McKean - Cages
Oh, sheep. I've lost all my sobbing colours.
Scott McCloud - Manga and Graphic Novels
If you just write the kinds of stories you think others will want to read, you'll be competing with cartoonists who are far more enthusiastic for that kind of comic than you are, and they'll kick your ass every time.
Jonathan Luna - Vol. 1
We don't seek anyone out. We just wait and hope that people who want the same things come along.
Gwenda Bond - Fallout
The problem with having friends was that you might lose them. Or they might get hurt.
Mark Russell -
I try not to speak to critics. It only encourages them.-Snagglepuss
Mark Russell -
The world is on fire, young man. As writers, it is only proper that we do what we can to warn people.But in telling the truth to the world, don't lie to yourself. Write whatever you want. Tell the truth. Just don't imagine that you are changing anything.Like I said, people just want to have a good time. -Snagglepuss
Mark Russell -
Son, in life you do not fight battles because you expect to win......you fight them merely because they need to be fought.-Snagglepuss
Kelly Sue DeConnick -
I am willing to make people uncomfortable so that my daughter doesn't have to!
M.C. Steve -
Because zombies can’t go out into the sun, most of them tend to be afraid of anything that can go into the sun and live to tell the tale.
Dr. Manhattan (Watchmen Book) - Alan Moore
I am going to look at the stars. They are so far away, and their light takes so long to reach us. All we ever see of stars are their old photographs.
Deadpool -
Through lightest dark or darkest light, You dont need no bling to join the fight. We're mercs with mouths and so much more, Yippee-ki-yay, we're the Deadpool Corps!
Grant Morrison - and a Sun God from Smallville Can Teach Us About Being Hu
I just wanted all the wars to be over so that we could spend the money on starships and Mars colonies.
Neil Gaiman - Preludes & Nocturnes
CHORONZON "I am anti-life, the beast of judgement. I am the dark at the end of everything. The end of universes, Gods, worlds... of everything. And what will you be then, Dreamlord?"MORPHEUS "I am hope.
David Gaider -
Tell yourself the stories you need to tell. But don't be fooled by them. Never live your own lies.
David Gaider -
We all go through our entire lives not knowing. Wondering. Trying.Untile we sleep.
Brian K. Vaughan - Vol. 2
Well, I've always wanted to call my son
John Hopkins - Lost Cactus: The First Treasury
Will Cato's alien buddies come en masse and invade Earth? He's not sure but he'll try to keep humanity in the loop.
John Hopkins - Lost Cactus: The First Treasury
Lost Cactus is a cornucopia of sights, sounds and inhabitants completely foreign to a little squirrel like Sammy, but attempting to set him straight will only complicate matters.
John Hopkins - Lost Cactus: The First Treasury
Ty is green but never with envy. Best of all, he's usually available to help move a heavy piece of furniture.
John Hopkins - Lost Cactus: The First Treasury
Bentley is a good bee with a shaky sense of direction and an appetite for mayhem. Just don't call him a drone. He hates that.
John Hopkins - Lost Cactus: The First Treasury
Lost Cactus is simply an urban myth.
Gwenda Bond - Fallout
My problem was that I had bad luck. And I spoke up when I saw something wrong. I did it because I could, without having to worry about the fallout lasting years. And yes, there was always fallout.
Wendy Pini - The Big ElfQuest Gatherum
But some words to men and women, boys and girls alike: The quality of the work must merit the readers' time and money. Do it for yourself, but make yourself a member of your own audience. There is no other way to evaluate your own progress.
Frederik L. Schodt - Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga
Japan is the first nation in the world to accord 'comic books'--originally a 'humorous' form of entertainment mainly for young people--nearly the same social status as novels and films.
Frederik L. Schodt - Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga
Comics are drawings, not photographs, and as such they present a subjective view of reality.
Max Landis - Superman: American Alien (2015-) #1
When you break something, you´re not just breaking the thing, you´re like hurting everyone who made it was.
Jack Kirby -
Life at best is bittersweet.
Grant Morrison - Batman: Arkham Asylum - A Serious House on Serious Earth
It's salt. Why don't you sprinkle some on me, honey? Aren't I just good enough to eat?
Fumio Obata - Just So Happens
Life has a time limit. And we are changing all the time. So are our ambitions, desires, and purposes . . . The important thing is to find something that never changes in you.
Neil Gaiman - Brief Lives
Is there a word for forgetting the name of someone when you want to introduce them to someone else at the same time you realize you've forgotten the name of the person you're introducing them to as well?""No.
Brian K. Vaughan -
That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.
Young Justice -
Kid Flash: Sorry. First time at the Hall. I'm a little overwhelmed.Robin: You're overwhelmed. Freeze was underwhelmed. Why isn't anyone just whelmed?
Tanya Masse -
I don’t need a personal trainer… I need someone to stalk me and threaten to kick my ass when I eat and drink stuff I’m not supposed to!
Steve Purcell -
So where'd you park the car, Max?''I don't know. I couldn't see over the wheel.''That's okay. I think I can smell it.
Robert Kirkman -
You have a valid complaint, and I do recognize it ... but you are reading into things a little bit. Just the same, I will do my best to make horrible things happen to a bunch of white people before something else so graphic hits a minority character.
John Hopkins - Lost Cactus: The First Treasury
On a far-flung parcel of government land situated somewhere in the vast reaches of parched American western desert sits an abandoned and long forgotten government facility known as Lost Cactus. That is what the shadowy agency ~ that operates there to this day ~ wants everyone from presidents on down to John Q. Public to believe.
Rita Mae Brown - Alma Mater
I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off.
Deyth Banger -
DeadPool reminds me for some other films which are sci-fi, like Selflessness and Mr.Nobody....But the speech is awful it must be fixed!
Tanya Masse -
How is it that food STILL contains calories that make you gain weight in the 21st CENTURY?! It’s like scientists aren’t even trying!
Damon Suede - Bad Idea
Pop culture. Nobody does bullshit better than us. Right? China took over manufacturing. And the Middle East has us on fossil fuels. That's just geography and politics. We're a nation of whacko immigrants. Scavengers and con men. We crossed the ocean on faith, stole some land and stone-cold made up a whole country out of nothing but balls and bullshit. Superhero comics got invented by crazy genius Jews who showed up and revamped the refugee experience into a Man of Steel sent from Krypton with a
Deyth Banger -
Some books don't answer the inside, I read one comic called Ms.Marvel!Under Marvel can be understand that this person is powerful and can handle a lot of stuff, but reality this wasn't a powerful one or one strong. This guy was a guy who just called the Avengers like Iron Man for help!
Jim Pascoe - Hellboy Animated Volume 1: The Black Wedding
Fire and paper - they do not mix well, n'est pas?""Perhaps they mix too well.
Bill Watterson - The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
I have all these great genes, but they're recessive. That's the problem here.
Simon Oliver - Collider #1
This is 911 dispatch, and the nature of your emergency… fire, ambulance, police or… physics?
James Kakalios - The Physics of Superheroes
At one point in the story, following a brazen daytime bank robbery, Electro is shown escaping from the authorities by climbing up the side of a building, as easily as Spider-Man . . . we see one observer exclaim, "Look!! That strangely-garbed man is racing up the side of the building!" A second man on the street picks up the narrative: "He's holding on to the iron beams in the building by means of electric rays—using them like a magnet!! Incredible!"There are three feelings inspired by this scen
Stan Lee -
Whosoever holds this hammer, if he be worthy, shall possess the power of Thor.
Paige Braddock -
I didn't set out to do a gay comic, but given the current political and religious climate in this country, I feel it is important as a gay person, and a Christian, to create stories with humor and honesty.
Paige Braddock - A New Frontier
‘Jane’s World’ has pushed the boundaries for mainstream comic strips: girls have kissed, punched each other, have been abducted by aliens, taken steamy showers together and turned into monkeys. Jane has been through a lot and I love her for it.
Fumio Obata - Just So Happens
If formality and courtesy take over the feelings . . . how silly and meaningless these things could become. And despite all this, I still take part in it!
Anne Belov - The Book of Wu
My main regret in life is that there is no MacArthur Fellowship awarded in the field of Panda Satire.
Tanya Masse -
I suffer from CLAUSTROPHOBIA, a fear of closed spaces.For example, I’m petrified that the WINE store will be closed before I have time to get there!!!
Tanya Masse -
MOMB - noun - One who can deal with all of the INSANITY of being a MOM... Because she's the BOMB!
Eli Of Kittim - The Little Book of Revelation: The First Coming of Jesus at the End of Days
Since ancient times, sacred texts from around the world foretold about a time period in human history when a mighty demi-god would appear on earth. Whether we call this figure Perseus, Krishna, or Messiah, he is epitomized in the figure of Jesus Christ—the modern equivalent of which is Superman!
Tanya Masse -
Motherhood is a constant battle of wanting to go to bed early so you can catch up on sleep and wanting to stay awake so you can enjoy some peace and sanity!
Rob Williams -
I offer you a fable for our times...A magic box sits in your pocket with all the knowledge and music and entertainment of the world contained within it. If you opened this box and looked down into it......How could you ever possibly look up again?- Larry Ferrell (Unfollow)
Ed Brubaker - Young Avengers Presents #1 (of 6)
It's because of my grandfather that I became a Young Avenger. But it's hard sometimes, to be a black kid carrying a name like "Patriot". I remember talking to Captain America about before he died, and he explained what Patriotism meant to him...It wasn't about blindly supporting your government. It was about knowing what your country could be, what it should be... And trying to lead it there through your example. And holding it accountable when it failed. I remember he said: "There's noting patr
Rachel Pollack -
Marion: What is all this? What's going on?Clint: The same thing that's always going on. The end of the world.
Shel Silverstein -
Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.
Tanya Masse -
They are not grey roots! This is my new fifty shades of grey OMBRE hairstyle!
Bill Willingham -
I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?
Raven -
Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!