Comic Quotes - Page 16

• Fortunately, I'm able to make a living from comics, so I'm privileged enough to be quite choosy, though most cartoonists can't afford to be. It's really an uncomfortable situation, since I'm not an illustrator, though I do get calls from morally indefensible businesses offering me money to decorate their ambitions. It's extremely rare, almost unheard of, in fact, that I am asked to do a comic strip. Do writers get calls to pen Toyota advertisements? Do composers get asked to write chamber pieces about exercise machines?

  Chris Ware

  Writing, Ambition, Exercise

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You often hear that people go into show business to find the love they never had when they were children. Never believe it! Every comic and most of the actors I know had a childhood full of love. Then they grew up and found out that in the grown-up world, you don't get all that love, you just get your share. So they went into show business to recapture the love they had known as children when they were the center of the universe.

  Mel Brooks

  Children, Believe, Love You

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• All I thought about when I wrote my stories was, "I hope that these comic books would sell so I can keep my job and continue to pay the rent." Never in a million years could I have imagined that it would turn into what it has evolved into nowadays. Never.

  Stan Lee

  Jobs, Book, Years

  "Comic book king Stan Lee loves the everyday superhero". Interview with B.J. Hammerstein, www.usatoday.com. May 17, 2013.

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• ...The lesson [comic books] taught children- or this child, at any rate- was perhaps the unintentionally radical truth that exceptionality was the greatest and most heroic of values; that those who were unlike the crowd were to be treasured the most lovingly; and that this exceptionality was a treasure so great that it had to be concealed, in ordinary life, beneath what the comic books called a 'secret identity'.

  Salman Rushdie

  Children, Book, Secret Identity

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• Aside from comic book heroes, the only real life heroes I had were musicians.

  Andy Biersack

  Real, Book, Hero

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• I started as a standup comic and an actor.

  Larry Wilmore

  Actors

  "‘The Nightly Show’ host Larry Wilmore: ‘Has race been in the news lately?’". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. January 19, 2015.

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• I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.

  Alan Ritchson

  Baseball, Growing Up, Book

  "Alan Ritchson Exclusive Interview SMALLVILLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 19, 2010.

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• I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic.

  Alan Ritchson

  Growing Up, Book, Grows

  "Alan Ritchson Exclusive Interview SMALLVILLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 19, 2010.

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• Ive never really been a big sci-fi guy or a big comic book guy.

  Sendhil Ramamurthy

  Book, Guy, Sci Fi

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• A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse.
  [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]

  Horace

  Poetry, Matter, Tragic

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• the true art of the gods is the comic. The comic is a condescension of the divine to the world of man; it is the sublime vision, which cannot be studied, but must ever be celestially granted. In the comic the gods see their own being reflected as in a mirror, and while the tragic poet is bound by strict laws, they will allow the comic artist a freedom as unlimited as their own.

  Isak Dinesen

  Art, Men, Law

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Winter's Tales”, p.56, Vintage

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• I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.

  Dick Gregory

  Humorists

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• What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each other; as in the former, the painter seems to have the advantage, so it is in the latter infinitely on the side of the writer. For the monstrous is much easier to paint than describe, and the ridiculous to describe than paint.

  Henry Fielding

  Writing, Sides, Ridiculous

  Henry Fielding (1902). “The history of the adventures of Joseph Andrews and his friend Mr. Abraham Adams”

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• Wit is a pleasure-giving thing, largely because it eludes reason; but in the apprehension of an absurdity through the working of the comic spirit there is a foundation of reason, and an impetus to human companionship.

  Agnes Repplier

  Giving, Foundation, Elude

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• I think the novel is essentially a comic form (tragedy is for the theatre), not meaning by that full of jokes, but that it is about the absurd detail of human life, the way in which one cannot fully understand what is happening. Life is muddle and jumble and ends inconclusively, and when this is presented with great comic art the sorrows of human life can be truthfully conveyed; one is moved by the spectacle, and feels that something truthful has been told in a magic way.

  Iris Murdoch

  Art, Thinking, Magic

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• The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but never welcome, never loved.

  Robertson Davies

  Passionate, Actors, Welcome

  Robertson Davies (1961). “The Personal Art: Reading to Good Purpose”, London : Secker & Warburg

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• What is a body that casts no shadow? Nothing, a formlessness, two-dimensional, a comic-strip character. If I deny my own profound relationship with evil I deny my own reality. I cannot do, or make; I can only undo, unmake.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Character, Reality, Two

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• The comic element is the incorrigible element in every human being; the capacity to learn, from experience or instruction, is what is forbidden to all comic creations and to what is comic in you and me.

  Mary McCarthy

  Elements, Comedy, Creation

  Mary McCarthy (1964). “The Humanist in the Bathtub”

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• Whoever decided that comic valentines were a good idea should have been sent away to think it over.

  Gladys Taber

  Valentine, Thinking, Should Have

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• Why do all these people want [comedians] to be serious? The reason they want that is these are people who aren't funny. Anybody funny can be serious, but people who have no sense of humor, they can never be funny - and frankly, they're jealous. There's very few comic actors. Think about it. There aren't that many. It's hard because you have to be able to do both.

  Jon Lovitz

  Jealous, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• One of the great things about being involved with comics is that those people are devoted to their characters, writers and artists. The average comic reader isn't casual about their habit.

  Charlie Huston

  Character, Artist, Average

  "Charlie Huston Talks About Creative Sacrifice In Writing Pulp Fiction". Interview With Jeffrey A. Trachtenberg, www.wsj.com. September 15, 2007.

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• No matter how much people want to pretend that they're embarrassed by it, that they don't watch it, everybody knows about it. It's truly, I believe, one of the only art forms that America has actually given to the world, besides jazz and comic books.

  CM Punk

  Art, Believe, Book

  Interview with Tom Breihan, www.gq.com. July 13, 2011.

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• I don't spend as much time drawing as I do writing and reading. That's the really work-intensive part. And by the time I have enough material, it's often way past due time to put the comic up, and I'm already behind schedule, and I have to kind of rush it.

  Kate Beaton

  Reading, Writing, Past

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• A lot of the ways that I like to approach comic books, or anything like that, is not just the book itself, but the fans of it, the readers, the world that exists around it as a cultural object.

  Kate Beaton

  Book, Way, Fans

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I want to make people think, and I don't want to come across like I am egotistical or that I want to change people's thoughts. I don't believe that as a comic I can convert anyone's opinion. I think I can maybe make someone look in one direction or the other but I can't make a religious person stop believing in God.

  Jim Jefferies

  Religious, Believe, Thinking

  Source: montrealrampage.com

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