I’m a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I’m also a coder.
That became a big time in comic books because it’s when people were starting to break out into independent stuff, the market was getting choked with speculators and everybody was trying to do their own trick covers.
I used to collect comic books. I had a substantial collection. I collect records also, but those have gone the way of the world.
Ultimately, there’s always been a link between comic books and video games, and comic books and movies, and then basically all three steadily becoming this sort of transmedia.
Serial fiction is a conceit of comic books and soap operas. As one goes, so goes the other in terms of public consciousness.
I was a very intelligent kid. I used my intelligence to support my passions. When it came to comic books, I became enthralled in the whole universe. I had to know all the facts and timelines. The whole fictional universe was real to me.
My mom would keep all kinds of materials in her classroom for children for reading. She kept comic books, newspapers, sports magazines, and books of all kinds.
I inhaled books. I loved Classics Illustrated comic books. These were books that I could afford to buy after I turned in pop bottles for change. ‘The Prince and the Pauper,’ ‘Robinson Crusoe,’ ‘A Journey to the Center of the Earth.’ Male narratives filled with adventure and self-discovery.
It’s embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It’s still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books – their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.
We are a little messianic about our comic books! We feel like they deserve to be more legitimate, they deserve to get more attention, they deserve to have better placement, and they deserve to have a broader audience.
As lifelong fans of comic books, Dan Didio and myself, we definitely have our own takes on what make for successful comics and the kind of comics that we want to publish.
When I did get into comic books, it was after a whole other career, and when I got into comic books, they didn’t even know who I was.
I mean, my understanding is that the live-action and the comic book versions of the Umbrella Academy’ will parallel with each other while still keeping their distance, so that fans of the comic books who have already read the storyline has something new to look forward to and in approaching a new season.
One thing I’ve realized is that being a nerd has transformed. I like that it’s easier to read comic books and, like, ‘Lord of the Rings’ now. You don’t have to get punched in the chest in the gym locker room for that anymore.
I didn’t read comic books; that’s not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.
I’d been working since I was eleven so I could buy my own comic books. I was that kid knocking on your door, selling subscriptions to the paper and crying because I wasn’t going to sell that last paper that would allow me to go to Disneyland.
My view is that comic books are meant to be long-form stories. They’re meant to be novels.
You can imagine sitting in a room for three days talking about comic books, eight hours a day. It gets wacky and very nerdy. It also gets contentious at times.
I’ve always had a soft spot for comic books. I learned to read from them. The words in them were so interesting.
I grew up in the ’70s, early ’80s as a kid, and when we first immigrated to this country I went to a 7-Eleven and for the first time in my life I saw… back in the day they had this little spinning comic book rack, and there were comic books and I was basically drawn to them.
I kept telling my mom that reading comic books would pay off.
That was always my dream as a kid: to draw comic books.
Comic books aren’t nerdy. You’d have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.
I make commercials and funny videos and T.V. shows or whatever, film projects that people will watch for ten minutes and go ‘Heh’ and get on with their day. I essentially… make comic books.
A lot of people who saw ‘The Avengers’ didn’t read comic books, don’t like comic book movies, and enjoyed it. That was huge for me.
I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.
I did not know much about ‘Black Lightning’ beforehand, but I always wanted to play a superhero. After getting the part, I went back and read the comic books.
I’ve been writing for a long time, and I’ve loved comic books for a long time – forever – but I had to learn how to write in a different way to write sequential art for a graphic novel. It’s been an interesting transition.
When I was in school I read a lot of comic books and pretend I was in them and kids would tease me and call me names. But now I do the same things and people say that I’m artistic and cool and I’m doing the exact same thing I did in high school.
I grew up reading ‘Lord of the Rings’ and comic books, so that kind of epic quality I like.
My brother and I used to collect comic books in San Francisco.
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
Graphic novels and comic books, by and large, as you know, have cover art, and they have interior art. The interior art is never as detailed as the cover art.
Graphic novels are all about fantasies. Superman and Batman started it. It’s like a reaction to environment around you. You desire to do things in comic books or films what you can’t do in real life.
I’m never one to care too much if my work becomes adapted; I make comic books.
Writing music is sort of my hobby, but it’s been falling off more and more. Doing comic books takes up my entire life.
I confess I didn’t read the ‘Green Arrow’ comics before coming to play Shado. The comic books are not as easily accessible in Hong Kong as they are in the States. I do enjoy superhero fiction, though.
One of my favorite comic books of all-time is the graphic novel ‘God Loves, Man Kills.’
Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it’s everywhere.
I like the superhero comic books, and I like to see what the actors do creatively with the characters and how they bring these superheroes to life in the movies.
The experience of reading a printed comic book will never change, but now, thanks to the digital age, there are many different ways to enjoy the same story. Digital comic books, of course, can be interactive in many different ways, allowing the reader to feel like a participant in the story.
I spent a lot of time drawing and writing little comic books, and my mom was a rapper, so I would steal her instrumentals.
I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.
I never read too many comic books when I was growing up, but I think everyone loved Wolverine, you know what I’m saying?
Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don’t write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can’t do, and vice versa.
I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that comic books appeal so strongly to children. Not that it negates any of their power for adults, but there is something about comics that makes them a perfect storytelling system for children.
I guess people might be surprised to know I read comic books. I’m a Marvel girl, as opposed to DC.
I’m a huge comic book collector. When I was a kid, I had both Marvel and DC. I was my own librarian. I made card files. I had origin stories of all the characters, and cross-referenced when they appeared in other comic books. I was full on.
There is a religion around ‘Star Wars’ that is different than even the fanaticism around comic books and other media.
I love comic books and I love anime.
As a writer – and a romance novelist, no less – I’ve always found it a bit odd when characters in comic books remain in relationship limbo for years at a time.
I used to write in school a lot; I always liked it and used to write on my own, comic books, come up with alternate story lines to the stuff I watched and read, a lot of books and TV, episodes of ‘Twilight Zone.’ I didn’t think about it.
As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.
People have these ideas about comic books and their adaptations as flashy and sort of surface-y, broad-strokes-type projects, but they’re not, really.
We don’t have a superhero culture. Comic books and superheroes are part of American culture. We have ‘Amar Chitrakatha,’ etc.
I wasn’t a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books.
I’ve always been apprehensive about doing comic books, period.
It’s been a challenge for me my whole life in that my insides don’t necessarily match my outsides… People try to strike up a conversation with me about Dungeons & Dragons or comic books, and I’m like, ‘I can’t. I’m sorry.’
