Comic Book Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• 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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• But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.

  Alison Bechdel

  Book, Littles, Rich

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• But you don't hire Ang Lee to do a typical children's movie. But it's such an interesting combination, whoever thought of getting Ang together with a comic book, that was just great.

  Dennis Muren

  Children, Book, Interesting

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• I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.

  Alejandro Jodorowsky

  Book, Writing, Opportunity

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. January 26, 2011.

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• I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds.

  David S. Goyer

  Book, Reading, Writing

  "David S. Goyer Explains His ‘Graphic Novel’ Approach to Renaissance Intrigue in ‘Da Vinci’s Demons’". Interview with lison Willmore, www.indiewire.com. April 9, 2013.

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• A cult classic... both a celebration of the unlimited potential of the comic book form, and a perfect melding of inspiring, iconoclastic imaginations.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Book, Unlimited Potential, Perfect

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• There are too many good comic book writers out there. I'd rather remain a fanboy.

  Simon Kinberg

  Book, Comic

  IGN Interview, www.ign.com. September 30, 2005.

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• 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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• 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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• It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Mean, Adults

  "Clowes Speak" by Tad Friend, July 30, 2001.

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• I got beat up by the comic-book kids when I was younger! They were cooler than me. Talk about levels of geekdom, I was a couple rungs below the kids who read comic books. Yeah. Not so cool, man.

  James Badge Dale

  Couple, Book, Kids

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• Ultimately, there's always been a link between comic books and video games, and comic books and movies, and then basically all three steadily becoming this sort of transmedia.

  Troy Duffy

  Book, Games, Three

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

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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'm a huge comic book collector. When I was a kid, I had both Marvel and DC. I was my own librarian. I made card files. I had origin stories of all the characters, and cross-referenced when they appeared in other comic books. I was full on.

  James Mangold

  Book, Character, Kids

  "'The Wolverine': New film cuts deep into Hugh Jackman hero" by Anthony Breznican, www.ew.com. January 08, 2013.

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• I watched so many comic book movies where the actors weren't as built as the characters in the book. It made me mad because they didn't look right.

  Joe Manganiello

  Book, Character, Mad

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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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• 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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• Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.

  Danai Gurira

  Book, Back In The Day, Comic

  "'The Walking Dead's' Danai Gurira Excited to Embody Badass Michonne". Interview with Lesley Goldberg, www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 22, 2012.

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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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• I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can be.

  Frank Miller

  Book, Thinking, Want

  "Frank Miller talks Extensively About 300 Follow-Up XERXES" by Adam Chitwood, collider.com. January 3, 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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• Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and draw my own comic books when I was on the old Lost in Space series.

  Bill Mumy

  Book, Writing, Kids

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