Graphic Novels Quotes

• Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Book, Comic, Mediums

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• I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

  Matthew Vaughn

  Book, Heart, Ideas

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• Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.

  Stephen Fry

  Intelligent, People, Comedy

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• When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

  Ted Rall

  Writing, Thinking, Together

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• My platform has been to reach reluctant readers. And one of the best ways I found to motivate them is to connect them with reading that interests them, to expand the definition of reading to include humor, science fiction/fantasy, nonfiction, graphic novels, wordless books, audio books and comic books.

  Jon Scieszka

  Book, Reading, Fiction

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• If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

  Ted Rall

  Writing, Skills, Long

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• I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

  Ted Rall

  Thinking, Written, Novel

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• Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Fun, Writing, Artist

  "Interview: Anthony Bourdain Is Ready To 'Get Jiro' With His New Food Focused Graphic Novel". Interview with Alex Zalben, www.mtv.com. June 26, 2012.

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• Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.

  Jon Scieszka

  Book, Reading, Adventure

  "National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Must Go!" by Jon Scieszka, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Anyone who sets foot into the Watchmen universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered Watchmen to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Feet, Littles, Nervous

  "DC Entertainment Returning to 'Watchmen' with 7-Book Prequel Series (Exclusive Image)". Interview with Borys KIt, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 1, 2012.

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• People unacquainted with graphic novels, including journalists, tend to think of Watchmen as a book by Alan Moore that happens to have some illustrations. And that does a disservice to the entire form.

  Dave Gibbons

  Book, Thinking, Illustration

  "Archaeologizing Watchmen: An Interview With Dave Gibbons". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. December 23, 2008.

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• Oh, I’m nerdy about science fiction and fantasy and graphic novels and reading, and I’m nerdy about board games. My favorite board game is a board game I’m working on right now. It’s a game of Napoleonic era naval warfare, and it’s going to be fun.

  Billy Campbell

  Fun, Reading, Games

  "Q&A – Billy Campbell (Darren Richmond)". AMC Interview, www.amc.com. April 2012.

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• The 'Barnaby' books were always intended to be graphic novels.

  Janet Evanovich

  Book, Novel, Graphic

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• Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Writing, Mean, Thinking

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• When you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink.

  Molly Crabapple

  Artist, Blood, Hands

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Graphic novels might really speak to one child who's struggling with the other kinds of reading and might help them discover that storytelling is joyful and personal and illuminating. They might find your way in auditorily by listening to audio books in the car instead of playing Game Boys or watching DVDs.

  Emma Walton Hamilton

  Children, Struggle, Book

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels.

  Charlaine Harris

  Thinking, Novel, Graphic

  "Charlaine Harris, living and dying in Bon Temps". Interview with John Williford, www.popmatters.com. May 14, 2012.

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• I'm a big fan of a lot of graphic novels - 'Fables,' 'Y: The Last Man' and 'The Walking Dead,' which I like a lot more.

  Cobie Smulders

  Men, Walking Dead, Fans

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• I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.

  Denise Mina

  Thinking, Different, Film

  "‘Dragon Tattoo’: Denise Mina on Larsson, feminist crime fiction". Interview with Noelene Clark, herocomplex.latimes.com. December 13, 2012.

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• One way of understanding a graphic novel is that it's an ambitious comic and one way or another my comics have had ambitions. I have no problem with escapism. When I get my depressions all I want to do is escape reality.

  Art Spiegelman

  Ambition, Reality, Understanding

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• I have to read comic books all first, because now when you get into graphic novels, they are definitely in deep graphic.

  Virginia Madsen

  Book, Firsts, Comic

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The ability to get inside your character's head in a graphic novel is really fun and useful because one, you can really define the character's voice and two, it's a way easier way to convey what the character's thinking by actually laying out what he's thinking.

  Eric Kripke

  Fun, Character, Thinking

  "'Supernatural' Creator Eric Kripke Opens Up About His New Comic 'Jacked'". Interview with Stacey Grant, www.mtv.com. November 23, 2015.

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• The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case in point than FROM HELL, Alan Moore's best graphic novel to date, brilliantly illustrated by Eddie Campbell. It's hard to describe just how much better the book is. It's like, "If the movie was an episode of Battlestar Galactica with a guest appearance by the Smurfs and everyone spoke Dutch, the graphic novel is Citizen Kane with added sex scenes and music by your favourite ten bands and everyone in the world you ever hated dies at the end." That's how much better it is.

  Warren Ellis

  Sex, Book, Bad Ass

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• As you know, transforming such a big book [The Gunslinger Born] into graphic novel format is really a process of translation.

  Robin Furth

  Book, Born, Process

  Source: www.graphicnovelreporter.com

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• I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed of buying comics... I'm not a graphic novelist. I am a cartoonist and I make comics and I am very happy about it.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Hate, Publishing House, Novelists

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