Top 195 Comic Book Quotes

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.

The comic book world is a tough business.

When I was a kid… if I couldn’t get a ride to the comic book store, I would walk a mile and a half each way to get the latest issues of ‘Batman’ and ‘Spider-Man’ and ‘X-Men.’ I could not choose one over the other.

‘The Green Turtle’ was created in the 1940s by a cartoonist named Chu Hing, one of the first Asian Americans to work in the American comic book industry.

‘New Mutants’ is the absolute definition of a broken down jalopy, and I took it on, and I just remade it… That’s why I was so cocky and confident: because I was like, ‘I just turned around this broken down comic book with products of my imagination.’

I always loved Batman, the Michael Keaton ‘Batman.’ I loved those films, and Superman, but I was never a real comic book geek.

Bob Harras’ personal and creative integrity is respected and renowned throughout the comic book industry. As an editor, he provides invaluable insight into storytelling and character.

I think when it comes to comics, I’ve been a lifelong comic book fan.

I can say pretty confidently that I am not the right guy to do a superhero movie, just because I was not a comic book kid. I don’t know that mythology, and I don’t have it ingrained in me in the way that a lot of these other directors do.

Quite often in comic book movies, very good actresses are relegated to being the girlfriend or the helper or the sidekick or something.

Hollywood loves pre-validation. Even if someone has a property that was first published as a comic book that sold only 5,000 copies, for Hollywood, that is a stamp of approval. ‘Oh, it was already published in another medium? Must be good!’ They get assurance from knowing that someone else already took the risk.

My favorite comic book growing up was ‘Thor.’ It was one of my three, favorite comic books. Obviously, Marvel is such a huge name, but for me, to book a role in a Marvel movie, and for it to be ‘Thor.’ When my manager told me I booked ‘Thor,’ I literally didn’t know what to say.

Writing a comic book series, you’re so reliant on whoever the artist is. It truly is collaboration.

It may be true that the only reason the comic book industry now exists is for this purpose, to create characters for movies, board games and other types of merchandise.

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

I mean, I’m on a comic book. I’m in a video game. This is not real life.

I just love comic books. I’ve always loved comic book art, and I just think it’s amazing.

It’s always been a dream for me to play a comic book character.

Basically, I’m an EC comic book guy, man. You can show me anything that’s high-spirited horror, and I’ll be there giggling.

I grew up with my uncle’s comic books at my grandma’s house, so I’ve always loved my comic book reading.

I read ‘The Last Wish’ and really loved it. But I never would have called myself a fantasy writer before this. I’ve done some comic book shows, I’ve done a lot of drama. So when I read the book I loved it but never thought I should adapt it personally.

The comic book world is so dangerous, you know what I mean? You say one thing and people – they’re ravenous – they are very opinionated fans. But they’re great fans.

I’ll be on the street and go up to people – ‘Have you read a comic book before? Well, here’s one.’ You’ve got your pro-life people, your pro-choice people, your feminists. I’m a comicbooks activist.

It seems like they make every comic book into a film. ‘Watchmen’ is my favorite of all time.

The really cool thing about when you’re playing a comic book character is that no one knows what he sounds like.

I’m a comic book writer, so I work with a lot of artists. Sometimes, you get art back, and you’re like, ‘Oh, no.’ Sometimes, you get art back and you’re like, ‘That’s exactly what I imagined in my head,’ and you’re happy about that.

A lot of the work I did with WWE had very strong comic book ties that were more than just a wink at the audience. There was a period of time when I had a clear protective face mask and a hood over my head that correlated with Doctor Doom.

For screenwriting, when you’re writing, you’re talking to hundreds – hundreds of people who might be interpreting what you’re saying. When you’re writing a comic book, you’re really only talking to the artist.

We often hear of a male director directing a great indie and immediately being offered the next huge comic book movie. Rarely, if ever, does this happen to a woman.

There was a time, as a young comic book reader, that I would have proclaimed ‘Deadworld’ my favorite series.

I’m not a really big comic book person. I know the typical ones – ‘Spider-Man’ and ‘Wonder Woman’ and ‘Storm’ and that stuff. But don’t quiz me, because I’m not good at things like that.

Hip hop fans are obsessed, and they’re geeks about hip hop. Comic book fans are also geeks, and when you can meld the two, then you open the world up to, I think, communities that will just take to each other.

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.

I feel when a writer treats a character as ‘precious,’ the writer runs the risk of turning them into a comic book character. There’s nothing wrong with comic book characters in comic books, but I don’t write comic books.

Reading the Martin Luther King story, that little comic book, set me on the path that I’m on today.

I’m in a comic book now. That was cool. That’s something that I’m still sorta reeling about, ’cause I read comics as a kid. Someone drew me, and actually did a pretty good job!

I was a huge comic book fan. It’s weird because the era of ‘Marvel’ I was into turns out to be very important in the long run, but it’s not the one that anybody romanticizes.

I watch comic book movies. Give me ‘The Avengers,’ give me ‘Thor’, those are my area. But I don’t watch comedies.

But one of my absolutely favorite things to do is go to comic book stores on the weekends. I’m a huge comic book nerd.

I had the ‘War of the Worlds’ comic book. I had lots of comic books.

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.

As a fan, I want all of the Marvel TV projects to be successful. I am a comic book fan.

I’ve always published a range of responses to my work in the letters section of my comic book.

One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice.

But you don’t hire Ang Lee to do a typical children’s movie. But it’s such an interesting combination, whoever thought of getting Ang together with a comic book, that was just great.

Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.

All of us who grew up reading comics love the memory of sitting under an apple tree with a comic book in one hand and a peanut butter sandwich in the other; the tactile sensation of the paper on the skin and so forth is part of the experience.

I didn’t really grow up a comic book fanatic.

When I was 11 years old, I thought, ‘All I really wanna be able to do is my own comic book,’ and I’m doing it. I don’t have any other real ambitions. I have nothing to conquer at all.

I really want to do a ‘True Blood-Six Feet Under’ comic book crossover.

I never was a big comic book fan. Obviously I’d heard them growing up from my friends who did read them, but I never was a big comic book reader.

I wasn’t at all sure I could make that sort of leap into that sort of comic book reality.

I try to do a lot of asymmetrical, triangular compositions – I find those work really well for comic book covers in that portrait mode, and I don’t always see that in other artists.

I don’t look at my work as being violent. ‘Officer Downe’ is more campy than anything. It’s a comic book, so it’s funny to me.

When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz.

I’m not really all that familiar with comic book culture.

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

I concentrate, more than I think virtually any comic book artist has in the past, on the so-called mundane details of every day life – quotidian life. What happens to a person during a working day, marital relations, and stuff like that.

It feels to me like ‘Shazam’ will have a tone unto itself. It’s a DC comic, but it’s not a Justice League character, and it’s not a Marvel comic. The tone and the feeling of the movie will be different from the other range of comic book movies.