Comic Quotes

I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips.

Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me.

Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you.

I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.

Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists.

You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear.

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.

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.

If a comic comes out on the scene and it's really knock-out brilliant, the community is pretty good about getting the word about good newcomers.

At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.

Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.

In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.

The American cinema in general always made stories about working-class people; the British rarely did. Any person with my working-class background would be a villain or a comic cipher, usually badly played, and with a rotten accent. There weren't a lot of guys in England for me to look up to.

I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best.

People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.

Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

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.

I'm taking a lot of my favorite artists, different people, my favorite music and marrying that with what I do as a comic. It's very collaborative, arty, fun and cool.

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.

Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.

You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

My mother had all these maxims - like, classy girls never chew gum, never read comic books, never get their ears pierced, never get their hair dyed.

I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold buttons on their red pants and drive cars.

My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.

I like good stories above all else... and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good.

My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.

Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

We have to do a film parody for Comic Relief. We can't decide which film to parody at the moment. Any ideas welcome, but not Spiderman owing to costume being too tight.