Comic Book Quotes - Page 4

• In this day and age, where you have a lot of comic book movies made every day, and most of them are really good boys, it's important to have a couple bad boys out there, too.

  Nicolas Cage

  Couple, Book, Boys

  "Comic-Con: Nicolas Cage, Idris Elba, and Directors Mark Neveldine/ Brian Taylor Interview GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 27, 2011.

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• When I was eight, I would look at the cover of the 'Ghost Rider' comic book in my little home in Long Beach, California, and I couldn't get my head around how something that scary could also be good. To me it was my first philosophical awakening - 'How is this possible, this duality?'

  Nicolas Cage

  Beach, Book, Philosophical

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• One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new characters at a dizzying speed. There are so many Marvel universes, indeed, that some superheroes do not even exist in one another's worlds, preventing gridlock.

  Roger Ebert

  Book, Character, Superhero

  Roger Ebert (2012). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2013: 25th Anniversary Edition”, p.33, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.

  Nathan Fillion

  Book, Kids, Thinking

  "Nathan Fillion Talks About Wonder Woman". Interview with Tony 'G-Man' Guerrero, comicvine.gamespot.com. January 28, 2009.

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• I'm the biggest nerd - I love comic books and stuff like that! I don't have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things.

  Megan Fox

  Funny, Girlfriend, Growing Up

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• Pandering to the people who have supported this industry for years is a sure way for this industry to be dead in a few years.

  Tom Brevoort

  Years, People, Way

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• Nobody knows what will work until they try it. Some of comics' biggest success stories in recent years have explored subjects that no one was writing about at the time - stories no one had any reason to think would succeed. My advice? Write what you want to read. You'll have more fun doing it - and if all else fails, you'll always have at least one loyal reader.

  Scott McCloud

  Fun, Writing, Thinking

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• The anomaly is that, as a publishing venture, comics are not doing very well. As a venture that supplies other media, they're incredible.

  Dennis O'Neil

  Media, Anomalies, Venture

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• Robin is a handsome ephebic boy, usually shown in his uniform with bare legs. He is buoyant with energy and devoted to nothing on earth or in interplanetary space as much as to Bruce Wayne. He often stands with his legs spread, the genital region discreetly evident.

  Fredric Wertham

  Boys, Space, Energy

  Fredric Wertham (1972). “Seduction of the innocent”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• I think continuity is the devil. I think it's constricting and restrictive, I think it's alienating and off-putting, and it inflicts an artifact of linear time as we experience it on something that exists outside of linear time as well as keeps new readership away by keeping comics a matter of trivia and history rather than actual stories.

  Matt Fraction

  Thinking, Devil, Stories

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• Comic-book pages are vertical, and movie screens are relentlessly horizontal. But it's all the same form. We use different tools, but we get the job done. I'm completely in love with CGI. It's great for conveying a cartoonist's sense of reality.

  Frank Miller

  Jobs, Book, Reality

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• Man Of Steel looks great, is well cast, and is, moralistically, completely rotten to the core.

  Jamie McKelvie

  Men, Steel, Looks

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• It's 2014, and adults are still writing articles about whether other adults should read comic books or not.

  Jamie McKelvie

  Book, Writing, Adults

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• For boys, Wonder Woman is a frightening image. For girls she is a morbid ideal. Where Batman is anti-feminine, the attractive Wonder Woman and her counterparts are definitely anti-masculine.

  Fredric Wertham

  Girl, Boys, Wonder Woman

  Fredric Wertham (1972). “Seduction of the innocent”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• You can't write something actively trying to please everyone - you're going to end up with watery soup that way. You just have to write stories you would want to read and hope that people like them.

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  Writing, People, Trying

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• 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.

  Scott McCloud

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

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• It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.

  Jack Kirby

  Men, Tools, Want

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• Over the last ten years, breaking into comics has changed so much. There used to be specific ways about how to do it ... and now, just like there are so many different ways people are getting exposed to comics, there's no single way that people are breaking in anymore.

  C. B. Cebulski

  Years, People, Different

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• I feel that life is a series of very interesting questions, and very poor answers. But I myself am willing to settle for the questions. If the questions are interesting, I feel I evoke them in what I do. I feel that should be good enough for everyone else.

  Jack Kirby

  Interesting, Answers, Life Is

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• I havent been doin much comic book writing for the last several years though, as Ive been writing television projects and a novel.

  Bill Mumy

  Book, Writing, Years

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• I definitely read the comic books and got as familiar with the comic books as possible. I was always a fan of Spider-Man and most superheroes. There aren't a whole lot of little boys out there that aren't.

  Chris Zylka

  Book, Men, Boys

  "Chris Zylka Wanted A Deeper Flash Thompson For 'Amazing Spider-Man'". Interview with Ryan J. Downey, www.mtv.com. May 3, 2012.

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• My mother had all these maxims-like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

  Jennifer Tilly

  Girl, Mother, Book

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• Self-publishing is still my basic recommendation to anyone wanting to do comics. Do it. Do it until you get good. Do it after you get good. It's good for your spirit as a creator.

  Kieron Gillen

  Self, Spirit, Recommendations

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• There was a sort of irony in the fact that these [superhero] characters - many of whom in that period, the Golden Age, had been evolved to fight the Nazis - were themselves very much in the Nazi ideal. The idea that you can solve problems through physical strength, by being stronger and more dominant and more powerful - that is fascism. I mean, that's it, that's the essence of fascism. I don't think the creators of the superheroes or the kids who were reading them at the time were the slightest bit aware of it.

  Michael Chabon

  Powerful, Reading, Kids

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• I was asked in an interview once: You're writing another book with a female lead? Aren't you afraid you're going to be pigeonholed? And I thought, I write a team superhero book, an uplifting solo hero book, I write a horror-western, and I write a ghost story. What am I gonna be pigeonholed as? Has a man in the history of men ever been asked if he was going to be pigeonholed because he wrote two consecutive books with male leads?

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  Uplifting, Team, Hero

  "'So My Daughter Won't Have To': Why Kelly Sue DeConnick Fights to Make Women Welcome in Comics". Interview with Christopher Zumski Finke, www.yesmagazine.org. January 29, 2014.

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