Top 30 Charles Forsman Quotes

I do love sparse cartooning.

Growing up my brother showed me a lot of Cohen brothers movies, I guess that’s where I get my dark humor from.

I listen to tech podcasts and read tech news everyday. So I am not unfamiliar with Amazon’s practices. I’m not surprised that they bought Comixology.

There are lots of theories that the simpler a comic character is drawn the more relatable they become. People can imprint themselves onto the gaps in the picture. The skill of cartooning is often working out how much can be stripped away.

My brother and I were really into baseball cards, and it seemed like an easy switch to jump over to comics.

I find myself laughing at really bad situations.

I like Comixology and I think they have a very captive audience which is good and bad. I hope that getting my books on there expose folks who just read Marvel/DC/Image to try something different.

I feel like interviews are the only time I actually analyze my own work.

I always wanted to write about comics and I have written little things here and there but I am not confident in my writing.

I found a really cheap Visograph printer on Craigslist and drove down to Pennsylvania to pick it up and that really gave me a lot of freedom.

I love a nicely designed paper comic but I don’t need to own them. To me, comics are about reading them. If I can get that on a tablet and not have another pile of paper under my coffee table, then I will opt for digital.

I like a challenging comic as much as the next guy but I feel like I am pretty conservative when it comes to laying out my comics. I like the panels to be clear and keep any ambiguity to the story or actual reading.

If we got writing assignments in English class to make up a story, that was when the glimmer of creativity popped out. That was way more interesting to me than writing down my life details.

I’ve realized that I will probably write about teenagers and that time in people’s lives – I’ll probably come back to it a lot.

I’m hard-pressed to say that anything I do in my comics is intentional. But that is a stupid thing to say.

Find the confidence in whatever way you can to just keep moving onto the next page. The only way you will finish projects and get better is to keep moving forward.

There are too many distractions on a computer.

‘Automa’ is probably my first sci-fi story. It’s not hard sci-fi but more in the ‘Terminator 2’ vein.

Anytime I feel like I am beginning to explain the plot or characters too much my stomach churns. I like stories that let the characters speak for themselves and don’t give you all the information.

I’m going to try to have a bonus item with each issue of ‘Revenger.’

I would love to do a pay-what-you-want but that just doesn’t work for physical comics so well.

I was in my early twenties and trying to figure out what I wanted to do and comics came back in my life and I thought I really want to give it a try.

I’d rather be a cartoonist. I don’t want to be a publisher.

I was really into music, but I thought, ‘Comics are great, I should get back into that.’

I have about 20 sketchbooks from my childhood filled with drawings, but I’d only have a page here or there where I was trying to figure out how to do comics.

I had zits on my thighs when I was a kid. I remember feeling so disgusting and grossed out by them.

The presentation of young people you often get from Hollywood is too shiny.

I have so many comics laying around the house and I’ve never been great at keeping them organized.

The way I build stuff in my mind, it’s sort of like a puzzle for me. I always talk about it like, when I’m writing a scene there’s a certain feeling I’m trying to create. I’ll have my list of scenes and it’s more like feelings, these notes I want to hit.

E.C. Segar, who created ‘Thimble Theatre’ and ‘Popeye,’ is one of my favorite cartoonists.