Graphic Quotes - Page 8

• To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way.

  Dave Eggers

  Stories, Might, Way

  Interview with Justine Sharrock, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2009.

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• Anybody hear the great news, today? Jimmy Swaggart under investigation! Oh Ja-eezus! One day every one of those cocksuckers will get caught! I understand in the case of Mr. Swaggart, that he claims that it was not multiple encounters with many prostitutes - apparently, only one sweet young thing. And he did tell Cal Thomas of the Moral Majority that the sex act itself was not fully consumated. However he did admit to doing something por-no-graphic with the girl. Let's use our imaginations, ladies and gentlemen.

  Frank Zappa

  Girl, Sweet, Sex

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• Whenever summer rolls around I begin to realize that I'm a complete and utter book snob. In relation to reading, I have absolutely no guilty pleasures at all. No graphic novels. No murder mysteries. My summer read is really no different from my winter read. I know many bookshops and magazines would have me believe that our summer forays are different, but literature is literature, and unfortunately snobbery is snobbery.

  Colum McCann

  Summer, Book, Reading

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• I won't read a new graphic comic novel until the writer has completed the entire series. I got burned a few times when I got turned on to a book, plowed through it only to find out the author was in the middle of writing the next.

  Nick Offerman

  Book, Writing, Next

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• People are so afraid to say the word "comic". It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to "graphic novel" and that disappears.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Men, Thinking, People

  "How to film a graphic novel". June 16, 2011.

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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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• The graphic style itself is influenced by a lot of very layered and detailed comics that I read as a kid, like Vagabond by Takehiko Inoue.

  Toyin Odutola

  Kids, Style, Vagabonds

  "Toyin Odutola and the Public Struggle". Interview with Julie Bramowitz, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 3, 2013.

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• Today, although as a whole, the industry is still male-dominated, more women are drawing comics than ever before, and there are more venues for them to see their work in print. In the 1950s, when the comic industry hit an all-time low, there was no place for women to go. Today, because of graphic novels, there's no place for aspiring women cartoonists to go but forward.

  Trina Robbins

  Drawing, All Time Low, Males

  Trina Robbins (2013). “Pretty in Ink: North American Women Cartoonists 1896–2010”, p.174, Fantagraphics Books

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• You start to get nervous when the value of a comic book or graphic novel is relative to the achievements of some other medium.

  Adrian Tomine

  Book, Achievement, Nervous

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Teaching is the rare profession where the customer isn't always right and needs to be told so appropriately.

  John Maeda

  Teaching, Design, Needs

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• The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.

  John Maeda

  Real, Eye, Differences

  Twitter post from Apr 18, 2009

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• I am pretty interested in hybrid forms. I love graphic novels and I think there should be more graphic poems in the world.

  Matthea Harvey

  Thinking, World, Form

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting puzzle in our times is that we so willingly sleepwalk through the process of reconstituting the conditions of human existence.

  George Orwell

  Sleep, People, Interesting

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• Innovation comes ultimately from a diversity of perspectives. So when you combine ideas from different industries or different cultures, that's when you have the best sense of developing groundbreaking ideas.

  Frans Johansson

  Ideas, Diversity, Perspective

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• You cannot not communicate.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Design, Graphic Design, Communicate

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• It has become a cliché to announce that 'we live in a remix culture'... What was referred to in post-modern times as quoting, appropriation, and pastiche no longer needs any special name. Now this is simlpy the basic logic of cultural production.

  Lev Manovich

  Names, Design, Special

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• In the broad sense design means thinking about what the function or purpose of things or processes are, and translating that into action.

  Howard Rheingold

  Mean, Thinking, Design

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• An old essay by John Updike begins, 'We live in an era of gratuitous inventions and negative improvements.' That language is general and abstract, near the top of the ladder. It provokes our thinking, but what concrete evidence leads Updike to his conclusion ? The answer is in his second sentence : 'Consider the beer can.' To be even more specific, Updike was complaining that the invention of the pop-top ruined the aesthetic experience of drinking beer. 'Pop-top' and 'beer' are at the bottom of the ladder, 'aesthetic experience' at the top.

  John Updike

  Drinking, Beer, Thinking

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• An image can only be one element in constructing a sequence of understanding.

  Germano Facetti

  Design, Understanding, Elements

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• I would love to collaborate on a graphic novel with an artist - I'm terrible at drawing but I really love that genre.

  Matthea Harvey

  Artist, Drawing, Graphic Novels

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Just look at the cinema itself: It's comprised of lots of movies about graphic novels, and if you're not 20 years old and wearing a cape and a mask and white, you're out of business. Today's cinema is a proliferation of comedies, which are in some ways creating caricature images. They're one-dimensional.

  Danny Glover

  Years, White, Creating

  "Black power mixtape co-producer Danny Glover opens up". Interview with Ed Rampell, www.pbs.org. February 7, 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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• Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it's hard work. You get tired reading comic books, but you never get tired looking at pictures or reading words.

  Peter Schjeldahl

  Book, Reading, Hard Work

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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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