Comic Quotes

1. "That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics."
Author: Alan Moore

2. "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."
Author: Alejandro Jodorowsky

3. "As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death."
Author: Alexei Sayle

4. "I went to church irregularly and was mostly reading comics in the pew."
Author: Alice Sebold

5. "I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten."
Author: Anne Frank

6. "I'm supposed to be making comics, so I had to do it the best way I knew how, which is what those guys at the beginning of the Twentieth Century were doing."
Author: Art Spiegelman

7. "He stared at Avery's socks and felt an odd sense of wonder. Socks were so normal. So mundane. How could someone who pulled on socks in the morning be a serial killer? Socks were not hard or dangerous. Socks were funny; foot mittens, that's what socks were. They made a knobbly hinge of your toes and became comical sock-puppets. Surely anyone who wore socks could not truly be a threat to him or anyone else?"
Author: Belinda Bauer

8. "So I'm over there in England, you know, trying to get news about the [L.A.] riots... and all these Brit people are trying to sympathize with me... 'Oh Bill, crime is horrible. Bill, if it's any consolation crime is horrible here, too.' ...Shutup. This is Hobbitown and I am Bilbo Hicks, Okay? This is a land of fairies and elves. You do not have crime like we have crime, but I appreciate you trying to be, you know, Diplomatic. You gotta see English crime. It's hilarious, you don't know if you're reading the front page or the comic section over there. I swear to God. I read an article - front page of the paper - one day, in England: 'Yesterday, some Hooligans knocked over a dustbin in Shafsbry.' Wooooo... 'The hooligans are loose! The hooligans are loose! What if they become roughians? I would hate to be a dustbin in Shafsbry tonight."
Author: Bill Hicks

9. "From the age of four, I was a huge comic fan and still am. When Lost in Space came along it was like being in a huge comic so we jumped at the chance of being part of that project and it proved to be a good choice."
Author: Bill Mumy

10. "Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects."
Author: Bill Sienkiewicz

11. "Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books."
Author: Bill Watterson

12. "At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business knows: Up for singers, down for comics. The people want to idealize a singer. They want to feel superior to a comic. You're trying to make them laugh. They can't laugh at someone they're looking up to."
Author: Buddy Hackett

13. "Comic timing... is how to have a relationship with the camera and deal with the camera without looking like you are."
Author: Colleen Haskell

14. "I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes."
Author: Dave Attell

15. "I was reading an old text on the exploits of Belgarath the Sorcerer, and I –" Senji stopped, going very pale, turned, and gaped at Garion's grandfather."It's a terrible letdown, isn't it?" Beldin said. "We always told him he ought to try to look more impressive.""You're in no position to talk," the old man said."You're the one with the earthshaking reputation." Beldin shrugged. "I'm just a flunky. I'm along for comic relief." "You're really enjoying this, aren't you, Beldin?""I haven't had so much fun in years. Wait until I tell Pol.""You keep your mouth shut, you hear me?""Yes, O mighty Belgarath," Beldin said mockingly."
Author: David Eddings

16. "Every comic can report a few 'gift from the gods' moments."
Author: Dick Cavett

17. "Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!"
Author: Frank Iero

18. "I really like dating stories, like in Betty and Veronica comics; I like David Lynch and H.P. Lovecraft for the dark gut-wrenching stuff, and I'm inspired by Miyazaki's films for the subtle heart-warming moments, as well as the moments that blew up my imagination."
Author: Fred Seibert

19. "Japan is the first nation in the world to accord 'comic books'--originally a 'humorous' form of entertainment mainly for young people--nearly the same social status as novels and films."
Author: Frederik L. Schodt

20. "I'm not a mean comic, I don't want to turn anybody off - I just want to give a point of view or my take on things that everyone can laugh at."
Author: Gary Owens

21. "The best books — like the best music or television or movies or comics or video games — can challenge us and force us to think or perceive aspects of life that we may prefer to avoid. In a sense, they threaten us."
Author: Geoffrey Reiter

22. "I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle."
Author: George A. Romero

23. "Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer."
Author: Gerard Way

24. "Doctor Doom was exactly the sort of bastard who would have armed al-Qaeda with death rays and killer robots if he thought for one second it would piss off the hated Reed Richards and the rest of his mortal enemies in the Fantastic Four, but here he was sobbing with the best of them, as representative not of evil, but of Marvel Comics' collective shock, struck dumb and moved to hand-drawn tears by the thought that anyone could hate America and its people enough to do this."
Author: Grant Morrison

25. "I'm doing research for a large comic book on the Beat Generation guys - Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac and those guys."
Author: Harvey Pekar

26. "I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in."
Author: Harvey Pekar

27. "The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement. The great thing is indeed that the muddled state too is one of the very sharpest of the realities, that it also has color and form and character, has often in fact a broad and rich comicality."
Author: Henry James

28. "Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior."
Author: Henry Ossawa Tanner

29. "Being a good husband is like being a good stand-up comic - you need ten years before you can even call yourself a beginner."
Author: Jerry Seinfeld

30. "To look back and know that I have had a pivotal role in the development of comics is something I'm very proud of, although it's not something I think about unless someone brings it up."
Author: Joe Simon

31. "In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I have to wonder about their effect on the kids' loyalty to the comic book medium all over again."
Author: Joe Simon

32. "What do you hope to get out of this meeting? - CIA Counterintelligence official, polling the audience before the start of a briefing on CIThat's what I hope to get: out of this meeting. - The Covert Comic"
Author: John Alejandro King

33. "I was a stage actor for 20 years or so; I was leading men in classical things. 'Shakespeare,' you know. And now, I never play leading men. I'm that kamikaze comic that comes from the left, turns the table over, and leaves, or the hyper-intelligent yuppie scumbag if it's a drama."
Author: John Michael Higgins

34. "It was this other side of Avery - the fact that he so visibly had an other side - that was helping me finally understand all three of the dimensions in Kafka: that a man could be a sweet, sympathetic, comically needy victim and a lascivious, self-aggrandizing, grudge-bearing bore, and also, crucially, a third thing: a flickering consciousness, a simultaneity of culpable urge and poignant self-reproach, a person in process."
Author: Jonathan Franzen

35. "Simon's walls were covered in what looked like pages ripped from a comic book, but when I squinted, I realized they were hand drawn. Some were black-and-white, but most were in full color,everything from character sketches to splash panels to full pages, done in a style that wasn't quite manga, wasn'tquite comic book."
Author: Kelley Armstrong

36. "The comic book fans, especially 'X-Men' fans, are so serious about their comic book."
Author: Kelly Hu

37. "I'd seen all the great entertainers by the time I was 14 or 15. My mother was artistic. My father was a bookmaker, so he had access to all those nightclubs, and he was smitten by certain artists, and we would go see them. We'd see comics like Sid Caesar and Milton Berle - those kind of artists - many of whom I worked with later in my life."
Author: Lainie Kazan

38. "Anna used to be the abstinence poster girl, but you could write a comic book about the many adventures of her vagina. It could wear a cape."
Author: Michelle Hodkin

39. "Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM."
Author: Nancy Sinatra

40. "I began in radio in 1997 on a radio show hosted by a now very famous comic, Jamel Debbouze. I would fake call listeners."
Author: Omar Sy

41. "Comedy and terror and autobiography and comics and literature-they're all the same thing. To me."
Author: Patton Oswalt

42. "The silent film has a lot of meanings. The first part of the film is comic. It represents the burlesque feel of those silent films. But I think that the second part of the film is full of tenderness and emotion."
Author: Pedro Almodovar

43. "I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!"
Author: R. L. Stine

44. "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?"
Author: Richard Donner

45. "The drum, at any rate, from its martial voice and notable physiological effect, nay, even from its cumbrous and comical shape, stands alone among the instruments of noise."
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson

46. "I couldn't picture heaven. How could a place be any good at all if it didn't have the things there you enjoyed doing? If there were no comic books, no monster movies, no bikes, and no country roads to ride them on? No swimming pools, no ice cream, no summer, or barbecue on the Fourth of July? No thunderstorms, and front porches on which to sit and watch them coming? Heaven sounded to me like a library that only held books about one certain subject, yet you had to spend eternity and eternity and eternity reading them. What was heaven without typewriter paper and a magic box?"
Author: Robert R. McCammon

47. "As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well."
Author: Shigeru Miyamoto

48. "Great works of art in all cultures succeed in capturing within the constraints of their form both the pathos of anguish and a vision of its resolution. Take, for example, the languorous sentences of Proust or the haiku of Basho, the late quartets and sonatas of Beethoven, the tragicomic brushwork of Sengai or the daunting canvases of Rothko, the luminous self-portraits of Rembrandt and Hakuin. Such works achieve their resolution not through consoling or romantic images whereby anguish is transcended. They accept anguish without being overwhelmed by it. They reveal anguish as that which gives beauty its dignity and depth."
Author: Stephen Batchelor

49. "Sometimes I rant, in a comical way, about how the gods give with one hand and take with the other."
Author: Sue Townsend

50. "I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything."
Author: Val Guest

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