Comic Quotes - Page 18

• Comic strip is almost like music on a page that you perform in your mind. It's not just pictures. There's a particular rhythm and structure to it that is unlike anything else. It literally is like music. You hear it in your mind as you read it.

  Chris Ware

  Mind, Pages, Structure

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• There's a rhythm to the words combined with the pictures [in a comic]. Whenever I'm working on a comic strip I re-read it, probably hundreds of times through to pay attention to how all of those things work. Sometimes even changing the angle of a character's eyebrow can really, seriously alter the effect and overall interpretation of a scene. And the insertion of a pause or a cough or a sniff, and all these things that we do in conversation, can bring it to life in a strange way.

  Chris Ware

  Character, Eyebrows, Attention

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• "Real" drawing is about specifics. It's about describing an object as accurately as possible. In a comic strip you have to draw a picture of the idea of the object. You have to draw the word that you are picturing, then you have to mix in specifics with it for it to work as a story. But you are still working with drawn words.

  Chris Ware

  Real, Ideas, Drawing

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• The masters of the comic spirit are often our prophets.

  Penelope Gilliatt

  Humor, Spirit, Comedy

  Penelope Gilliatt (1990). “To wit: skin and bones of comedy”, Scribner

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• Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless.

  Helen Clark MacInnes

  Greek, Mixtures, May

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• My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.

  Michael Shanks

  Brother, Book, Boxes

  "Michael Shanks on Smallville and Hawkman!". Interview with Jenna Busch, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I don't think there's hardly a comic out there that does clean material all the way around. There's a couple of guys that are clean, but I'm not one of them.

  Drew Carey

  Couple, Thinking, Guy

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• One of the things I would love to do is Axe Cop, which is a comic book. I would like to be involved in Axe Cop someday. I would also love to be in a Western.

  Ken Marino

  Book, Cop, Someday

  "Ken Marino Talks BURNING LOVE, an Adaptation of AXE COP and a PARTY DOWN: THE MOVIE Update". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 27, 2012.

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• In his comic scenes, Shakespeare seems to produce, without labor, what no labor can improve.

  Samuel Johnson

  Scene, Produce, Labor

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• Also, I think having that comic gene kind of makes you look at things in a different way. If you take yourself so seriously, eventually you end up one of those people having a 'Do Not Disturb' sign on their lives. You see them drawing the curtains and they don't even realize that they've kind of drifted off somewhere.

  Jamie Foxx

  Thinking, Drawing, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I was a born club comic. Radio and TV and stage were fine, but I found my real home in cabaret.

  Bob Monkhouse

  Real, Home, Clubs

  "Obituary". web.archive.org. December 30, 2003.

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• I enjoy comedic things. People don't understand it's the hardest thing to do. We have a ratio of 25-to-1 between good dramatic actors and people who are considered good comic actors.

  Charles Grodin

  People, Actors, Ratios

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• A good comedy’s very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

  Colm Meaney

  Writing, Comedy, Enjoy

  "Colm Meaney Manifest Destiny". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 7, 2012.

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• I say this with no fear of contradiction. Jonas Barnes is absolutely, positively the funniest stand-up comic I have ever seen. Of course, I almost never leave my home. Jonas is a great guy and was a big help to me.

  Danny Bonaduce

  Home, Guy, Helping

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• I am a total geek. I'm not even a closet comic book geek. I am the comic book geek.

  Matthew Settle

  Book, Geek, Closets

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• I liked baseball and sports and Garbage Pail Kids and comic books. I know what its like to really adore something.

  Todd Lowe

  Sports, Baseball, Book

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

  Michael McMillian

  Book, Blood, Feet

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• I'm sort of killing two birds with one stone here, getting to write for "True Blood" and being able to put myself in a comic at the same time.

  Michael McMillian

  Writing, Blood, Two

  "EXCLUSIVE: Michael McMillian On 'True Blood' Comics, TV Crossovers, And Steve Newlin's Return". Interview with Rick Marshall, www.mtv.com. December 27, 2010.

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• The world is a little more diverse in 2015 than when the Fantastic Four comic first came out in 1961.

  Michael B. Jordan

  World, Four, Littles

  "Michael B. Jordan: Why I'm Torching the Color Line" by Michael B. Jordan, collider.com. May 22, 2015.

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• A lot of comic conventions go way beyond comic books and include other parts of pop culture, like celebrities and science fiction and movies and books. So I go to them either as a celebrity, or as a fan, because I'm a big sci-fi geek.

  Jane Wiedlin

  Book, Fans, Culture

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• A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to me, I dont know what they think.

  Stephan Pastis

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• I have, perhaps, a slave-like constitution which is too easily restrained by bonds; it then becomes rebellious and bursts out in a comic revolution.

  Saul Bellow

  Revolution, Constitution, Rebellious

  Saul Bellow, Gloria L. Cronin, Ben Siegel (1994). “Conversations with Saul Bellow”, p.21, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books.

  Jon Scieszka

  Book, Reading, Fiction

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• Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel.

  Colson Whitehead

  Growing Up, Book, Writing

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• Even a pretty traditional comic book writer can make valuable contributions to the Internet.

  Harvey Pekar

  Book, Internet, Valuable

  "Exclusive: Harvey Pekar Talks Webcomics, Art And His New Series, 'The Pekar Project'". Interview with Rick Marshall, www.mtv.com. September 8, 2009.

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