Comic Book Quotes - Page 8

• I did with my wife a comic book for the Raynham Hall Museum in Long Island. They sell the book every single time a busload of kids comes in.

  Ernie Colon

  Book, Kids, Islands

  Source: www.slate.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I looked at Tank Girl, which is the coolest comic, ever. The movie didn't make the comic book any less cool. The comic is still the comic.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Girl, Book, Tanks

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  4 Copy quote

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

  Jamie McKelvie

  Men, Steel, Looks

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• I'm a fan of comic books. I'm a nerd. I'm a geek. I'm all that stuff.

  John Barrowman

  Book, Nerd, Fans

  Source: collider.com

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you're 25 years old dressed up like Superman at a comic book convention, that's great. If you're 78 and you're doing it, something's wrong.

  Billy Bob Thornton

  Book, Years, Comic

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Kid ... Comics will break your heart.

  Jack Kirby

  Heart, Kids, Break

  69 Copy quote

• As a comic book artist, once you become a master, you end up a slave. In fine art you're always free... since I couldn't make it at Marvel, I made my life a carnival.

  Mark Kostabi

  Art, Book, Slave

  13 Copy quote

• I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.

  Mika

  Art, Book, Eye

  "'Grace Kelly's' Mika confesses awkward youth" by Shanon Cook, edition.cnn.com. October 8, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Personally I don't think there's any real intrinsic difference between comic books, movies, theatre, novels. I know there's sure to be some differences of some sorts. I've worked on novels, films, and video games, and in an adaptation, I guess one of the issues is that I have to be in love with the thing I'm adapting before I do it. So that can cause a problem. You can be too scared of it. You could be too reverential. But at the same time you want to try to capture this thing that you're obsessed by. You're fixated for a reason. What's the reason? You try to get ahold of it.

  Alex Garland

  Real, Book, Thinking

  9 Copy quote

• I'm not a comic book guy. I've never been to Comic-Con. I don't know anything about that. It's a whole different world.

  Scott Glenn

  Book, Guy, World

  Source: collider.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm really interested with the way light plays on images and one of the artists that really reawakened my interest in comic books was Frank Miller and his treatment of Daredevil, and then Wolverine and, of course, Batman.

  James Marsters

  Book, Artist, Light

  Worlds Of Westfield Interview, February 1999.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I used to be embarrassed because I was just a comic-book writer while other people were building bridges or going on to medical careers. And then I began to realize: entertainment is one of the most important things in people's lives. Without it they might go off the deep end. I feel that if you're able to entertain people, you're doing a good thing.

  Stan Lee

  Book, Bridges, Careers

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

  98 Copy quote

  Show source

• [A comic book writers' union] will never happen. Someone will always be willing to write Batman for free. ... You sit at a bar with an editor at a show and you see 19 people come up and pitch ideas at them. If everybody writing the top 20 books all quit and demanded, 'Union now, union forever,' those 19 guys would be getting phone calls. There will never be a union. I think things are getting better - I bet things have never been so good - but there will never be a union.

  Matt Fraction

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  8 Copy quote

• 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

  4 Copy quote

• 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.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  10 Copy quote

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

  Jamie McKelvie

  Book, Writing, Adults

  4 Copy quote

• 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

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  6 Copy quote

• 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

  10 Copy quote