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We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.


William Gaddis

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LEWIS BLACK 'Blade Runner' was a comic strip. It was a comic strip! It was a very dark comic strip. Comi...
RIDLEY SCOTT I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you n...
ROBERTO AGUIRRE-SACASA My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.
ADRIANNE PALICKI Many of my poems try to use a comic element to reach a place that isn't comic at all. The comic ...
STEPHEN DOBYNS I feel like there are comic book artists who are comic book artists, and then there's comic book...
JEFF LEMIRE When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly A...
JOE SIMON 'Comic book' has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So ...
FRANK MILLER Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic bo...
SAM RAIMI Comic book heroes are an important part of our culture, so I think we're actually utilizing comi...
MIKE COLTER I vividly remember my first 'Superman' comic, which my granddad bought me when I was about 7...
DAVE GIBBONS If ever I were to read a comic book, it might be this one.
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DUANE DAVIS To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - un...
ALAN MOORE I was interested in finding ways to do dark comedy that were actually dark and comic.
DANIEL HANDLER It was the beginning of youth culture and pandering to youth culture, ... In that, the comic book pu...
MICHAEL CHABON When I was a kid, back in the '40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there...
HARVEY PEKAR We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the gr...
MIKE STOLLER In the comic-book world, there tends to be an overblown sense of tradition. Bad habits die hard. The...
FRANK MILLER I used to be the best comic actor in my batch. Everyone knew that my comic timing was impeccable.
NAWAZUDDIN SIDDIQUI In the '50s, a lot of stories were built around radiation and the proliferation of new technolog...
JIM LEE It's frankly something of a mystery to a lot of people, even in the comic-book industry. Manga has b...
ERIC REYNOLDS In the beginning of the century, in 1900, the newspapers in this country began running comic strips,...
WILL EISNER A great comic-book cover occurs when it gets a potential reader to pick the book up and start thumbi...
ADAM HUGHES We are thrilled to have Peter on-board to kick off this historic comic project. He is one of the mos...
JOE QUESADA My publisher's been shipping me to comic-cons, and it seems that my readership overlaps perfectl...
CHUCK PALAHNIUK Look! A trickle of water running through some dirt! I'd say our afternoon just got booked solid!
BILL WATTERSON If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS... 'Annie' was a comic strip with an awful lot of information in it. It had more information in the bal...
MARTIN CHARNIN I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.
ZAYN MALIK He's the cleverest comic in the world,
CHRISTINE LAVIN Is it my end-all and be-all to become a standup comic? No.
JASON ALEXANDER We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States.
MAJEL BARRETT Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere.
ELI ROTH Comic books are a big passion of mine.
TARAN KILLAM My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain A...
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LYDIA MILLET In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's excit...
JOE SIMON Nothing is harder to create than brilliant comic ballets, except maybe brilliant full-evening comic ...
ROBERT GOTTLIEB There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic boo...
JOHN RIDLEY We have lost a national treasure - a comic actor of real genius.
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KRISTEN BELL I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated an...
EDWARD SAID I grew up on EC comic books and 'Tales From the Crypt,' which were all loaded with humor, ba...
GEORGE A. ROMERO Human beings, vegetables, or comic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance ...
ALBERT EINSTEIN Nothing comic isn’t serious.
ALI SMITH You are all zombie thigh-fat people brought into reanimation by some evil force of forceful evil!
JHONEN VáSQUEZ ¡Guatita llena, corazón alakú!
THEMO LOBOS Conspiracy!! And now employing juvenile mongoloid demon babies!! My famous chicken recipe will never...
JHONEN VáSQUEZ Her skin is cold, and clammy; her eyes are the color of sky, on the grey, wet days that leach the wo...
NEIL GAIMAN In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is no...
BEN KATCHOR Before I went off to Rutgers, I worked in a comic book shop in my hometown. At night, I would work o...
CHRISTOPHER MCCULLOCH Humanity is a comic role.
NOVALIS I wasn't as big a comic book aficionado as some of my friends, but I definitely had some Batman ...
ROBIN LORD TAYLOR From the age of four, I was a huge comic fan and still am. When Lost in Space came along it was like...
BILL MUMY Comic books and radio were my escape. I even remember 3-D comic books where you put on the red-and-g...
GEORGE A. ROMERO I came to think that nobody from England could draw American comic books, because they were clearly ...
DAVE GIBBONS It is a very sad time and a big loss for me personally. He provided comic relief but was also a real...
JAMES ARNESS So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning...
NEIL GAIMAN I'm a huge Marvel Comics fan, and I'm a huge 'Wolverine' fan, I like the 'X-Men&...
JASON DAVID FRANK Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.
DARREN ARONOFSKY The comic book world is a tough business.
SHIA LABEOUF I provide a little comic relief.
ANTHONY ANDERSON I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as ...
FRANK MILLER Detective Comic #27: The very first glimpse we get of the guy and already he looks pis...
GLEN WELDON A lot of people who saw 'The Avengers' didn't read comic books, don't like comic boo...
JOSS WHEDON We as comics do want an immediate response from the audience. It's really quiet on the set, and ...
CEDRIC THE ENTERTAINER Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, m...
METHOD MAN I find the comic book audience a lot more intense than the fantasy one, definitely.
FINN JONES Cartoonists create so many cartoons on any given topic that we can follow the life cycle of a comic ...
ROBERT MANKOFF I'm not a comic. I'm a humorist.
DICK GREGORY At a young age, I was interested in comic books, which was really how I learnt to read. The name Cag...
NICOLAS CAGE Viewer's Choice Stand-Up Comic.
LIZZ WINSTEAD The comic, more than the tragic, because it ignites hope, leads to more, not less, participation in...
HARVEY COX As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store booksto...
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J. K. SIMMONS I was a Marvel kid, and I would have to say that Spiderman is my all-time favorite character. As I g...
COREY TAYLOR You know you are really famous when becoming a comic character,
NELSON MANDELA At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.
AVI ARAD The first comic book I ever bought, I was in third grade. It was 'Avengers,' I think, #240. ...
DAVID DASTMALCHIAN I grew up reading '2000 AD' and the occasional Transformers and GI Joe comic, but when I cou...
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DANIEL GILMAN The characters of Don and Charlie were always very strong, but we've got a lot more out of the chara...
CHERYL HEUTON We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
MARGUERITE BLESSINGTON We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers
MARGUERITE GARDINER We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers.
MARGUERITE GARDINER Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the 'X-Men' characters, for more than the acti...
HUGH JACKMAN We're exploiting the s--- out of Comic-Con,
DARREN ARONOFSKY My favorite part of Comic-Con? The groupies.
JOSS WHEDON That was the beginning of my comic collecting.
JAMES STURM In comic strips, the person on the right always speaks first.
GEORGE CARLIN In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
GEORGE CARLIN I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen yea...
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And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits a...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ... in an even wilder part of the river's jungle of cane and gum and pin oak, there is an Indian mou...
WILLIAM FAULKNER When I was fifteen, a companion and I, on a dare, went into the mound one day just at sunset. We saw...
WILLIAM FAULKNER India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly ...
WILLIAM DALRYMPLE The horse's neck is between the two reins of the bridle, which both meet in the rider's hand...
WILLIAM CAVENDISH Put a bridle on thy tongue; set a guard before thy lips, lest the words of thine own mouth destroy t...
WILLIAM DRUMMOND Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for comp...
WILLIAM WYCHERLEY Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circul...
WILLIAM ZINSSER Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.
WILLIAM ZINSSER Whereof whats past is prologue, what to comeIn yours and my discharge.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE