Top 188 Comic Books Quotes

I’m not ashamed of comic books. You have some people that are like, ‘We’re trying to elevate comic books.’ Comic books have always told great dramatic stories.

I’m a huge fan of comic books movies and comics, and so for me it was a real dream to get to make a movie in this world, and certainly to get to make a movie with Venom as its titular character.

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.

It’s very strange for me to do a comic book for my first movie. But I used to collect – and I love – comic books.

Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. I love this kind of world, so to be able to work in it is a dream. I enjoy it. It’s all good.

My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we’d lie in the same bed, and I’d read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.

My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.

Comics are a dying art. If you ask a little kid to choose between a video game with insane graphics or comic books… you have to compete with cable, satellite TV with its thousands of channels, and with video games that are like movies, with CGI explosions where you can blow up worlds.

The cool thing about comic books and prose is that if a reader gets confused on page 8, they can backtrack. With films, you sit down in a seat and once the projector starts going you’re stuck for the next two hours. There are no do-overs, rewinding or starting again.

I was always into comic books and horror stories and a huge consumer of pop culture. And then I worked for awhile for ‘The Village Voice’.

Books is our main type of content, but we include user-generated content and will include other verticals such as scientific papers, sheet music, and comic books.

Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games.

My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.

People love their comic books.

I came to one of the first Comic Cons in 1985, when it was just people trading back issues of comic books.

At home, I have lot of pictures from ‘The Walking Dead’ and some stuff from comic books. At comic conventions, people will give me a lot of autographed stuff, so a lot of those are on my wall.

I think the most important things my book does is to give readers the address of George Monbiot’s website and how to get hold of comic books by Grant Morrison.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cage came from a comic book character called Power Man.

I grew up reading not-serious literature, like comic books and pulp novels, so my instinct is to amuse the reader and entertain.

In my office in Florida I have, I think, 30 manuscript piles around the room. Some are screenplays or comic books or graphic novels. Some are almost done. Some I’m rewriting. If I’m working with a co-writer, they’ll usually write the first draft. And then I write subsequent drafts.

Gene Hackman’s portrayal of Lex Luthor did not exist in comic books. This is not my Lex Luthor, but I really like it.

I was never really a nerd. I’m not really into comic books or Dungeons and Dragons or any of that kind of stuff. I was in drama class, and I’m a big movie and music buff. And I’m into sports.

I grew up on EC comic books and ‘Tales From the Crypt,’ which were all loaded with humor, bad jokes, and puns. I can have that kind of fun and make these comic book movies but, at the same time, talk about things I want to talk about – whether it’s consumerism or the Bush administration or war.

I will say that comic books are not the easiest things to translate to film, number one. Even the most well meaning of filmmakers find what’s acceptable on the printed page is very difficult to bring to film.

When I was very young, even before I went to what you call elementary school, I used to read and watch Japanese comic books and anime all the time. These were the seeds of my future.

Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the ‘X-Men’ characters, for more than the action. I think that’s what set it apart from many of the other comic books. In the case of Wolverine, when he appeared, he was a revolution really. He was the first anti-hero.

Growing up for me in the Philippines was hard to read comic books because I’m blind.

I’ve always loved comic books, which is why I’ve done films like ‘Hulk’ and ‘The Punishers.’

I really wasn’t into comic books growing up.

I think that sense of wonderment, where you walk out expecting the ordinary and are confronted by the extraordinary, is something that has always interested me, whether in TV or comic books.

I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn’t have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they’re all somewhere in the basement of my folks’ house.

I hope I won’t become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don’t really know comic books all that well.

As far as I know, no kid ever bought a children’s book himself with his own money, but they’ll buy comic books. So we better make them good.

Neither my mom nor my dad ever bought me any comic books. Certainly not for Christmas. I suspect that doing so would have violated the Parents’ Code.

People underestimate the complexity of comic books.

Superman was my first comic back in the ’50s; that was me under the bedspread with the flashlight reading comic books.

I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you’re reading comic books to the big screen.

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

For reasons probably related to the popular vision of Albert Einstein and, also, the threat posed by black holes in comic books and science fiction, our gravitational wave discoveries have had an amazing public impact.

Most normal boys, as they’re growing up, they – in order to become attractive, they might, you know, get good at sports or join a rock band or develop good social skills, and for some reason, I thought that drawing comic books might be my route.

I’m a total nerd. I love comic books and video games and most of all zombies!

Comic books are a big passion of mine.

In the ’50s, a lot of stories were built around radiation and the proliferation of new technology. In the ’70s, there were a lot of stories that dealt with the Vietnam War. So comic books have always been a reflection of the times we live in.

Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story.

We probably put about four or five comic books out a year and probably about two or three art books and various trade paperbacks – maybe four or five of those a year – and that’s what we do now.

I always loved comic books when I was growing up, and Spider-Man was definitely a character I gravitated towards because I loved the story of an average teenager having super powers.

Ninety percent of the comic books I’ve written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.

I didn’t see a lot of comic books growing up.

I’ve never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books or was a horror buff.

I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I’ve written a graphic novel. How you carry a story in pictures is different than how you do it in text.

I played Dungeons & Dragons and have read comic books since I was a kid.

On the back of comic books in the 1970s, there was something called the American Seed Company. They would send you a cardboard box full of seeds; kids would sell them door-to-door in the neighborhood and then pick from a catalog of prizes. I bought myself a watch that way.

Maisie Williams was my first choice to play Wolfsbane when I heard about the ‘New Mutants’ movie – but in comic books, I can keep the New Mutants adolescent for decades and have as much fun writing them at the end as I did in the beginning.

If I do foray more into writing comic books, I definitely would hope that my acceptance is based more on my ability to write than my ability to schmooze my way in as a celebrity.

Art was a way for me to express myself and for me to also escape because it was tough growing up as a child. We didn’t have a lot of money. I was always creating. I was writing stories. I was doing comic books. I made my own universe.

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg’s great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

We really believe, existing in a climate where comic books and franchises are the order of the day, that new material and writers need to be fostered more than ever. And in the theater and in television, the idea of original writing holds real value.