Comic Book Quotes - Page 6

• I think the thinking is, in the comic books, I should pack as much onto a page as possible, because, you know, it's kind of the cheaper format, and you want to give readers as much as you can for their dollar.

  Chester Brown

  Book, Thinking, Giving

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• As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters. They're never perfect. They're flawed people put in extraordinary circumstances.

  James Badge Dale

  Book, Character, Perfect

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• My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.

  Sherman Alexie

  Father, Lying, Book

  "Encore: Living Outside Tribal Lines". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. May 31, 2013.

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• ... Oceanic malaise. I never saw anyone reading anything more demanding than a comic book. I never heard any youth express an interest in science or art. No one even talked politics. It was all idleness, and whenever I asked someone a question, no matter how simple, no matter how well the person spoke English, there was always a long pause before I got a reply, and I found these Pacific pauses maddening. And there was giggling but no humor - no wit. It was just foolery.

  Paul Theroux

  Art, Book, Reading

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• I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Book, Years, Scripts

  "Carl Hiaasen: 'My humour has always come from anger'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2011.

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• I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Teacher, Book, Upset

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• Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  Character, Winning, Issues

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• Comic book companies are like comic book villains; they keep coming back after they die.

  Jim Steranko

  Book, Villain, Comic

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• Comics are expensive. Don’t make me resent the money I spend buying yours. Every single moment in your script must either move the story along or demonstrate something important about the characters — preferably both — and every panel that does neither is a sloppy waste of space.

  Mark Waid

  Single Mom, Moving, Character

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• I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.

  Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

  Book, Reading, Hero

  "PLAYBILL.COM'S BRIEF ENCOUNTER with Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa". Interview with Adam Hetrick, www.playbill.com. July 10, 2010.

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• One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.

  Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa

  Book, Becoming, Comic

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• I mean, of course, I love sci-fi and stuff like that, but I'm not, like, a comic book crazy guy.

  Russell Hornsby

  Crazy, Book, Mean

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• We can't really make a living doing comic books, despite the fact that would be an awfully fun way to make a living.

  Erich Hoeber

  Fun, Book, Would Be

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• You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Book, Comic

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• It was 1978 when Superman came out, and I kept thinking, Why don't they do something about it? They've done all these crappy attempts at comic book film adaptations. What can we do different? Why don't we just re-release this thing?

  Richard Donner

  Book, Thinking, Different

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• The beauty of the world of Unbreakable is that you're playing it for reality. It should never feel like a comic book movie. It feels like a straight-up drama. It's real. You're confronting the possibility that comic book characters were based on people that were real.

  M. Night Shyamalan

  Real, Drama, Book

  Source: collider.com

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• Most men are secretly still mad at their mothers for throwing away their comic books. They would be valuable now.

  Rita Rudner

  Mother, Book, Men

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• Hey, guess who's gay? The Green Lantern from the comic books. Today Mitt Romney knocked him down and shaved his head.

  David Letterman

  Book, Gay, Down And

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• Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it's been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire life.

  Bryan Lee O'Malley

  Book, Fall, Writing

  Source: www.avclub.com

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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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• 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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• Artists are not your art monkeys. They are your collaborators. They should be given all due consideration to follow their journey.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Art, Journey, Monkeys

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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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