The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess so. I guess some do political humor, some do topical humor, but the ones that I like, the ones that are appealing to me, were guys who were just talking to you about their life.
Many in the creative professions were nerds in their pasts because they spent so long reading comics and using their imaginations when they were growing up.
I think women are vital to the future of the superhero comics and the entire industry – as creators, as editors, as consumers, as retailers.
I grew up on monthly comics. My closet is full of monthly comics. I’ve always wanted to do a monthly comic, and while I’ve had a couple of offers, the timing has never worked out. Most superhero comics come into the world as monthly series, so we wanted the same for ‘The Shadow Hero.’
I think comics are really – superhero comics are at their best and most primal when they’re about joy and flying, and about escaping the gravity of the world. But, at the same time, that’s not to say all stories should be happy.
Comics shouldn’t be ‘tools’ for anyone’s agenda except for the characters. And I am speaking only of super hero action comics. I love many of the alternative comics that are like journalistic stories. Documentary comics, a mix of reportage and fiction. Those are just great.
To be honest with you, I didn’t really read a lot of DC comics as a kid, but I was obsessed with Batman and still am.
Some comics are in it for what they can get out of it. Others are in it for a love of comedy. I think those that are in it for a genuine love of comedy find each other within the circuit and become friends.
I still tell a lot of jokes and do a lot of funny comics, but the stuff I like best is the personal stuff. I will still occasionally talk about my job and retail, but it evolved.
I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late.
A lot of times when I sit down with the other comics and try to talk theory, they say I’m being too serious.
When I was cast in ‘Batman v Superman,’ I was sent a huge stack of comics. They provided a ton of information about Cyborg and how he has evolved as a character over the years.
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.
Everyone at ComiXology has been very supportive and enthusiastic about getting ‘Youngblood’ as well as the rest of the Awesome/Extreme catalogue online. Hopes are high that this relationship leads to more online comics.
When I was asked by Pacific Comics for an original creator-owned series, my first choice of those several characters was Ms. Mystic. Since I always try to advance the work of other younger creators, I asked the young Mike Nasser if he’d like to join me in this project. He said yes. Mike created nothing!
I hate this word ‘graphic novel.’ It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn’t be ashamed of buying comics… I’m not a graphic novelist. I am a cartoonist and I make comics and I am very happy about it.
I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.
I guess my journey with comics began with stuff like Spider-Man and Batman. I started off with mainstream superhero stuff, which I’ve never abandoned.
Lots of things that go on in mainstream superhero comics are just stupid. They just show up on the page, and no one makes any mention of it.
I love comics. All I’ve been doing is reading every day, sitting in the house. Because I’ve not been feeling too good, so I’ve been reading and reading.
Any club has more than enough comics, so if you’re not there every night talking to the booker, you’re not going to get on. You have to be there more than they are.
There’s a lot of art and comics and movies being paid homage to by game designers.
In a perfect world, I’d like to start running comics for kids – by kids.
I’m a fan of the sensibility of comics, and I love the escapism of them and the defining of good and evil. They’re just so creative, too.
I was being laughed at. I hated it, so I made an adjustment to control the situation. All comics learn that.
The great thing about online comics is that this happens naturally, even if you don’t advertise.
I was into comics because these were my real male role models, even though at the time, I didn’t know it.
In my own case, my folks didn’t actually object to comics, as many parents did, but they pretty much felt the things were a waste of time.
I’d love to play Venom. I’m a huge ‘Spider-Man’ fan, and Venom was the character that drew me into the comics.
Thanos has eight million backstories in the comics, but they’re all kind of sad.
Not everyone wants to see children’s films, comics, and supermen.
There’s something about the intimacy of comics that gives you a false bravado; you don’t always consider the consequences.
The reality is that much of the stuff you see in film, television, comics, and children’s cartoons got its start inside the inspired, disruptive halls of science-fiction and fantasy literature.
A lot of comics fly by the seat of their pants, and they pride themselves on being witty, quick, and off-the-cuff. That’s not my show. I wrote a show, and I want to do the show I wrote. I’m not interested in what the audience has to say.
Motion comics take the underlying physical book material and enhance or modify it slightly enough to make it unique and, we think, best-suited for a digital environment.
One of the problems in modern comics is that they keep referencing themselves endlessly.
I had been working on this series called ‘Everything Dies,’ and it was basically me doing non-fiction essays, responding to religion and stuff like that, and I really got into this ideas of telling factual stories via comics.
I like to read comics, and I’ll listen to records, and I like to play pinball.
If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it’s being true to their nature… that’s what takes a long time to learn.
Most stand-up comics relish performing ‘in one’ – solo. They like the autonomy.
I’m a world expert on superhero comics. I think maybe only Michael Chabon knows more than me.
I’d love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.
That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You’re only limited by your imagination.
If you want to draw comics, you really have to love to draw, as you will be spending many hours sitting down with a pencil or pen in your hand.
I think if you want to do a thing properly you have to take a lot of care. I’ve always found it’s easier to draw comics if you know clearly in your head what you’re drawing, rather than if you try and make it up as you go along.
The only people who like to live alone more than comics are priests.
I never read comics as a kid. I guess I was lazy and watched cartoons instead.
I looked out into the audience, saw dozens of faces I knew well – LGBTQ folks, mostly – all avid comics readers and superhero fans and DC supporters, and it just hit me: Why was this so impossible? Why in the world can we not do a better job of representation of not just humanity, but also our own loyal audience?
I didn’t get into comics as a stepping stone.
I’m happy I can sit home in my office and make up stories about superheroes. And I only have to deal with a pretty limited amount of people to get those comics produced.
There’s a creative freedom to comics, and a fulfillment I get out of panel layouts and storytelling that is hard for me to get anywhere else.
There are certainly other female comics who are moms, but I don’t know any who are actively touring with their kids. But there are more and more becoming moms, and it’s awesome. I feel we’re in a super sisterhood.
I’ve been reading comics since I was four. I used to get them when I would go grocery shopping with my mom. I remember getting the digest versions of old DC comics. The one that I remember reading first was Paul Levitz’ ‘Justice Society of America’ stuff that he was doing in the ’70s.
When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could viably have gone, that they didn’t have to follow ‘Watchmen’ and the other 1980s books down this relentlessly dark route. It was never my intention to start a trend for darkness. I’m not a particularly dark individual.
I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn’t use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.
We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement.
With comics, there’s no budget. There’s a budget in terms of you have to pay an artist and a colorist and all that, but you can do anything you want to do.
The ’90s was a great period for the fans that were collecting at that time. Comics sold at an all-time high and reached the largest audience in our modern age, and the energy in our business was fantastic. Any bad feelings from fans of that era were a result of the poor delivery of the product we sold them.
