Comic Book Quotes - Page 24

• The world has always been like a comic book world to me! What's happened is that communications got better and better, so now with cell-phones we can be in touch with people half a globe away.

  Stan Lee

  Communication, Book, Phones

  Source: www.theartsdesk.com

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• Comic books are just a way to show a story. Then there are the movies, and television and exhibits like this that take the stories and make them seem so realistic. In the comic book, you're just reading a story - hopefully a good, exciting story that whets your appetite for all of this stuff to come.

  Stan Lee

  Reading, Book, Way

  Source: wwd.com

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• I think any comic book - or really, any book that you can read - in a sense is an educational tool in that it helps literacy. The more you read, the better you get at it. It almost doesn't matter what you read, the important thing is for young people to become readers.

  Stan Lee

  Educational, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.ign.com

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• If you go into a comic book store, there are tons of Star Wars stories on the stand. There are lots of different stories to tell. Maybe George [Lucas] won't tell them. Maybe some kid, who's a Star Wars fan that's planning to go to film school, will call Lucas and say, 'I'd like to make a Star Wars film.' Then, they'll make one.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Stars, War, Book

  "‘The Man’ Interviews: Samuel L. Jackson and Eugene Levy". www.hollywood.com.

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• When you start to talk about comic books, a lot of the time, people forget about the comic part of it. They need to be funny.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Book, People, Needs

  Source: articles.chicagotribune.com

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• I think that is what we do by preserving and telling our stories. If you don't tell your stories, other people will tell their story about you. It's important that we nurture and protect these memories. Things change. Existence means change. So, the kind of precious memories about being black for my generation won't exist for my kids' and grandkids' generations unless we preserve them through fiction, through film, through comic books, and every other form of media we can possibly utilize to perpetuate the story of the great African-American people.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Memories, Book, Mean

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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• My personal view is that reading has to be balanced. Obviously, there's a certain amount of reading that we have to do academically to continue to learn and to grow, but it's got to be balanced with fun and with elective reading. Whether that's comic books or Jane Austen, if it makes you excited about reading, that's what matters.

  Emma Walton Hamilton

  Fun, Book, Reading

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I have been a comic book fan nearly all my life. My fascination began as a refuge after my father left because it was within the stories told in comics that I could find heroes who fought for justice and where outcasts or misfits could find purpose and commonality. But over time I have come to love comics as a medium for its ability to tell stories with tremendous depth and emotion that in some ways go beyond what is possible solely with the written word.

  Andrew Aydin

  Father, Book, Hero

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Most comic book creators consider about making characters that people recognize and that can carry across many books. Something that becomes a trademark. For me I have always just followed IDEAS, and that takes me into a whole range of things.

  Sean Michael Wilson

  Book, Character, Ideas

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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• There are many things I still don't know or don't do well in comic books. It's more a question of having the will to do something creative on a subject that seems interesting. Then just giving it a bloody good bash - that's the main thing.

  Sean Michael Wilson

  Book, Giving, Interesting

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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• The thing is that I don't normally think in terms of manga when I'm writing. Sounds odd from someone who has is getting a reputation for doing manga related work. But I would say that my scripts are NOT manga at the stage of my writing process, they are just comic book stories in a more general sense.

  Sean Michael Wilson

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: comicsbulletin.com

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• I like the brighter, shinier, happier comic-book material on a personal level, but I also think the best stories are told where you just don't know from page to page or moment to moment when the sucker-punches are coming.

  Mark Waid

  Book, Thinking, Pages

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• I have a nineteen-month old daughter. I totally don't mind devoting time to her. When you have a kid, it's hard to go out to the movies. I really don't know what's going on with comic book movies.

  Michael Jai White

  Daughter, Book, Kids

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• People who know and read comics know that there's a huge diversity amongst the types of stories. Nobody ever goes 'how many more of these movies based on novels are there going to be?!'. People laugh at that question and they go novels, there are all different types of novels. But there are all different types of comic books, they just happen to have drawings on the cover!

  Kevin Feige

  Book, People, Diversity

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• 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

  Jobs, Editors, Names

  "Gail Simone : Survival Tips for the Newbie Writer" by Gail Simone, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2011.

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• There's a Marvel superhero called Black Bolt & his real name is Blackagar Boltagon & that really tells you a lot about superhero comics.

  Jamie McKelvie

  Real, Names, Superhero

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• Look, I like gritty. I write gritty. There is a time and a place for gritty. I'll take my Batman gritty, thank you, and I will acknowledge that such a portrayal means that my 11-year-old has to wait before he sees The Dark Knight. But if Hollywood turns out a Superman movie that I can't take him to? They've done something wrong.

  Greg Rucka

  Writing, Mean, Dark

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• There's a thing that creeps into this conversation ... that if you complain about the depiction of women [in comics], it becomes, 'Well, but ladies - the dudes are idealized too.' And the thing is that the dudes are idealized for strength and the women are idealized for sexual availability. It's very, very different. The women's costumes are cut in such a way that I could give a cervical exam to 90% of our heroines. And I don't have a medical degree! So if I can find it, that's impressive.

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  Cutting, Availability, Giving

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• American writers often say they find it difficult to write Superman. They say he's too powerful; you can't give him problems. But Superman is a metaphor. For me, Superman has the same problems we do, but on a Paul Bunyan scale. If Superman walks the dog, he walks it around the asteroid belt because it can fly in space. When Superman's relatives visit, they come from the 31st century and bring some hellish monster conqueror from the future. But it's still a story about your relatives visiting.

  Grant Morrison

  Dog, Powerful, Writing

  "The Super Psyche of Comic Book Shaman Grant Morrison". Interview with Gavin Edwards, www.playboy.com. April 18, 2012.

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• We have a whole other division, where we actually literally take the comic book and animate it. Our feeling was that, if this was going to be our show and that it was going to be a brand new show, it has to be more adventures with these characters, in the same way that, through the years, there have been long runs on the comic book series. It's the same characters, with different voices, along the way.

  Jeph Loeb

  Running, Book, Adventure

  Source: collider.com

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• I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books, or was a horror buff.

  Chad Lindberg

  Book, Reading, Fans

  "Chad Lindberg Exclusive Interview THE CAPE and I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 7, 2011.

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• Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it's hard work. You get tired reading comic books, but you never get tired looking at pictures or reading words.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Book, Reading, Hard Work

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think that people are really hungry for original content. I think there's a sense of reboots and remakes, and we're lacking in any sense of originality in media. So, I think the people who want something like this which has a graphic novel feel or comic book feel but that is designed and created for the medium of television, I think that is something is very appealing to a lot of people.

  Miles Millar

  Book, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• The extraordinary thing about comic books and graphic novels is that they cannot exist without the art. If my words disappeared tomorrow, well, whatever. This is a visual medium in which the eye and the mind work together to bear witness to story, to lives.

  Marjorie M. Liu

  Art, Book, Eye

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• The challenges in taking any IP into any other platform are best met by empowering the individuals that can work best in that area and that is one of the things that I really admire about Marvel as a company. They go out and find the best people, whether it is to draw a comic book or create a television series or make a movie.

  Jeph Loeb

  Book, People, Empowering

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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