Comic Book Quotes - Page 22

• They [comic books] are not a genre, they are not something to get hot and cold from one year to the next, they're the exact same thing as books and plays: they are a source of great stories and colorful characters.

  Michael Uslan

  Book, Character, Hot And Cold

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Comic books, if you're adapting a comic book - like X-Men, for example - you've got 40 years of amazing stories to dig into, things that incredible artists have been thinking about for decades.

  David Hayter

  Book, Artist, Men

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I was just a guy who did adult or alternative comic books. And then suddenly to be, like, a New Yorker cover artist was a different thing.

  Adrian Tomine

  Book, Artist, Guy

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• Maybe I'd be a storyboard artist. Graphic novel/comic book artist. Backup dancer. Singer. It would be cool to focus on one of these full time. But I like seeing them all intertwine.

  Jade Hassoune

  Book, Artist, Dancer

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• I've always wanted to write comic books, my earliest memories are of waiting for Dad to come home from work, and, secreted in his lawyer's leather briefcase, would be comics from the store.

  Arvind Ethan David

  Memories, Dad, Book

  "Nailed It!: David and Kyriazis on 'Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency'". Interview with Keith Silva, comicsbulletin.com. March 8, 2016.

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• I wasn't a comic book geek as a kid. I read some, but it was just like, "Oh, I have this comic book here." It wasn't like I was collecting them.

  Chadwick Boseman

  Book, Kids, Geek

  Source: collider.com

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• Oddly, I think if you look at comic books, you look at the shelves in the store, it's predominantly male characters, historically. But if you look outside the window it's 52-percent female, and something odd is going on there. So I do think it's your responsibility as a writer, really, to create stuff that little girls can get into too. I want my daughters to have role models that are female.

  Mark Millar

  Girl, Daughter, Book

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I just trust the people involved. Marvel and DC for the last 16 years - is that 90 percent of the time it's incredible top talent. Like, this is what makes it different from the pre-2000 superhero movies. I would say, except Tim Burton and Richard Donner, it was generally, comic book movies were done by guys who weren't that into the material and people who didn't really respect the stuff. But as everything, whether it's Wolverine, X-Men, Avengers, Batman, all these things, it's just been done by top-tier people. I have total confidence that they'll continue that tradition of being great.

  Mark Millar

  Book, Men, Years

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• I do think that hip-hop has a relationship with comic book culture, and Kung Fu movies too, for that matter.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Book, Thinking, Hip Hop

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• The latest spin on the Marvel comic-book hero delivers the popcorn goods.

  Peter Travers

  Book, Hero, Popcorn

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• I love comic books - maybe to a fault sometimes.

  Zack Snyder

  Book, Faults, Sometimes

  Source: screenrant.com

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• This is the contradiction we have in the media. We love vigilantes: Batman, Tarzan, Green Arrow - the comic books and the TV shows are filled with vigilantes. We love to promote it. Jesus Christ was a vigilante. We admire these people, but we don't want to be associated with them.

  Paul Watson

  Jesus, Book, Media

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• I heard of Martin Luther King Jr. when I was 15 years old. I heard of Rosa Parks. And I met Dr. King in 1958 at the age of 18. I met Rosa Parks ... But to pick up a fun comic book - some people used to call them "funny books" - to pick this little book up, it sold for 10 cents, 12 pages or 14 pages? 14 pages I digested. And it inspired me. And I said to myself, "If the people of Montgomery can do this, maybe I can do something. Maybe I can make a contribution."

  John Lewis

  Kings, Fun, Book

  "The Long March Of John Lewis". Interview with Jamil Smith, www.mtv.com. August 5, 2016.

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• "March" was inspired by "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story." I actually first heard about that comic from John Lewis, who told me that it played an important role in the movement. And so once he told me about that, it made me start thinking, "Well, why doesn't John Lewis write his own comic book?".

  Andrew Aydin

  Kings, Book, Writing

  "John Lewis marches on: 'Our struggle is a struggle to redeem the soul of America'". Interview with Philip Eil, www.salon.com. August 9, 2016.

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• I went on to write my graduate thesis on the ["Montgomery Story"] comic book itself. It was the first long-form history that was ever written about it. And it's how I found out Martin Luther King actually helped edit "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story."

  Andrew Aydin

  Kings, Book, Writing

  Source: www.salon.com

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• I am a huge comic book fan, and I love everything vintage: cars, movies, music, art, and style - especially the 1950s style.

  Mateus Ward

  Art, Book, Vintage

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• When I was a kid, I used to be way more nerdy about comic books and comic book characters. I still love them, but I don't collect anymore.

  Zachary Levi

  Book, Character, Kids

  "Zachary Levi on Nerd HQ’s Return to Comic-Con and Who’s Coming with Him". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2016.

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• I read graphic novels, here and there, but I'm not a comic book guy, as much.

  Zachary Levi

  Book, Guy, Here And There

  "Zachary Levi on Nerd HQ’s Return to Comic-Con and Who’s Coming with Him". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 12, 2016.

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• You can write songs about your comic books and the girl or boy you sort of know and your mom and dad and it's all right there in front of you.

  Scott McClanahan

  Girl, Mom, Song

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• I don't think it's necessarily 100-percent true. But comic books have infiltrated the mainstream Hollywood in ways that I don't think I ever would have seen or thought imaginable a while ago. But it's also cyclical. You saw it in the '80s when it became kind of huge again. And then it disappears for a while, then it comes back again, then it disappears for a while. So yeah, there's something about that.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Book, Thinking, Hollywood

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The R.I.P.D. picture is like a graphic novel, I guess. I don't know if it's like a typical kind of comic book. But there is great source material for those kinds of films.

  Ryan Reynolds

  Book, Typical, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Graphic novels and comic books offer an easy foothold into that world, and screenwriters and studio execs gravitate toward those, because I think they can see it all right there. It's like, "Here's what the movie looks like."

  Ryan Reynolds

  Book, Thinking, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• People should really horde their Blu-rays like old comic books and baseball cards. Because they're really beautiful, and will be worth something if you like movies as I do.

  Oliver Stone

  Beautiful, Baseball, Book

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When I was a kid, I remember the first Batman, the first Superman comic books when they came out, thinking how great that was and wouldn't it be great to see a movie like that. They did some cheap serials, but they're not the same as today. But I think younger audiences would like to see a real hero also.

  Clint Eastwood

  Real, Book, Hero

  "Eastwood and Hanks talk 'Sully,' their film about the ‘humble, smiling hero’ who landed on the Hudson River". Interview with Rebecca Keegan, www.latimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• That's the type of thing you need to keep in mind when drawing comics. The storytelling. Consider the action and the space available to you, that's what will make it a great comics page. Once you've figured that out, you can always find/make the reference to support your storytelling decisions. So by all means, study film, but as with any reference, the results are better when they inform the craft and not dictate it.

  Declan Shalvey

  Mean, Drawing, Space

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