When 'Watchmen' was published in 1986, the vast majority of comics readers deemed it a watershed in comics history. The 12-part serial comic book was widely acclaimed as a genius subversion of the superhero genre, and it did much to popularize comics to adults.
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Related When I was a kid, back in the '40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there... HARVEY PEKAR I vividly remember my first 'Superman' comic, which my granddad bought me when I was about 7... DAVE GIBBONS When I was a small child, I partially learned to read with comics, in particular with 'Scamp,... JAMES GUNN Part of running DC Comics is that it's much larger than Image Comics is, or was. There's a c... JIM LEE My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics. ADRIANNE PALICKI I dug up some old John Buscema 'Conan' comics. Man, when Alfredo Alcala was inking, that was... TED NAIFEH 'Comic book' has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So ... FRANK MILLER My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain A... WALTER MOSLEY People, they think that animation is a style. Animation is just a technique. It's like, people, ... MARJANE SATRAPI I was not a giant comic book fan as a kid, but to the extent that I did read comics, Spider-Man was ... J. K. SIMMONS No small part of the club's audience consisted of would-be comics, as well as the leading comics of ... KLIPH NESTEROFF I wasn't as big a comic book aficionado as some of my friends, but I definitely had some Batman ... ROBIN LORD TAYLOR I'm in a comic book now. That was cool. That's something that I'm still sorta reeling ab... RUTINA WESLEY I was into Alan Moore and Frank Miller. I was a teenager when all those books where coming out for t... JANE GOLDMAN I wasn't terribly aware of Catwoman. She was a DC comics character and as a kid, I wasn't te... BENJAMIN BRATT People think I have an interest in comics, but I'm only interested in comics from the '40s, ... TERRY ZWIGOFF It's frankly something of a mystery to a lot of people, even in the comic-book industry. Manga has b... ERIC REYNOLDS The thing about 'Watchmen' that people should know is that when it came out there was absolu... GERARD WAY I confess I didn't read the 'Green Arrow' comics before coming to play Shado. The comic ... CELINA JADE I'm a huge Marvel Comics fan, and I'm a huge 'Wolverine' fan, I like the 'X-Men&... JASON DAVID FRANK When I started out in the eighties, the idea of creating serious comics for adults was pretty laugha... SETH 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 There are a lot of Chinese comics, but the Chinese comics tend to be more historical and conservativ... ANN NOCENTI I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated an... EDWARD SAID I think probably the first time I wanted to be an artist was when I was about six or seven years old... DAVE GIBBONS Looking back, I realize my favorite stories weren't in books, they were in comics. On top of bei... JEFF KINNEY There seems to be a peculiar kind of clamor for comics. And I'm not sure how much a part of real... CHRIS WARE I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen yea... ANTHONY BOURDAIN There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social ... JO BRAND Motion comics are just cheap animation. Very cheap animation. And I like animation almost as much as... DAVE MORRIS I've always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze bac... SCOTT MCCLOUD The difference between graphic novels and web comics is even greater than graphic novels and story b... DOUG TENNAPEL There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the b... SCOTT MCCLOUD Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was par... CAMREN BICONDOVA The first big long-form work I did in comics was 'Scalped' for Vertigo, which ran for 60 iss... JASON AARON When you first hear the name 'Max Irons,' you'd be forgiven for assuming that Marvel com... KATE REARDON I've been reading comics since I was four. I used to get them when I would go grocery shopping w... JEFF LEMIRE The fundament of a superhero is the guy in tights saving innocent people from bad things. It's amazi... FRANK MILLER When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly A... JOE SIMON In the beginning of the century, in 1900, the newspapers in this country began running comic strips,... WILL EISNER When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I... DAVID MAZZUCCHELLI I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, bu... JONATHAN LETHEM I was embarrassingly well-versed in Marvel lore, so it was pretty easy to slip into that world. But ... BRIAN K. VAUGHAN I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI I don't really read any comics, but when I got casted on the show, I starting reading 'The W... CHANDLER RIGGS I do still read comics since I started writing for DC, but nowhere near as much as I used to, and I&... KAREN TRAVISS My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earl... RICK MOODY I never thought I would work in mainstream superhero comics or Valiant or Marvel. I just set out to ... JEFF LEMIRE I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, b... DANIEL CLOWES Writing a book is lonelier and slower than writing comics. The joy of comics is that you have somebo... NEIL GAIMAN We're seeing comics in Hollywood, ... and we're also seeing Hollywood in comics. DAVID ROLAND Oh yeah, I grew up with comics. You know, I always like to describe myself as a 'narrative junki... DAVID LISS In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who ... ADAM MCKAY In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is no... BEN KATCHOR I read the Bible when I was 12 while studying for my bar mitzvah. I was also reading a lot of Dilber... SIMON RICH I went to church irregularly and was mostly reading comics in the pew. ALICE SEBOLD When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could ... ALAN MOORE I read comics and stuff. I buy a lot of comics, a lot of films and boxsets. ED GAMBLE There's no limitation on comics, nothing. From a logical standpoint, how can there be a limitati... HARVEY PEKAR The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings b... NATE POWELL In comics, we're all weird together. I can go to a comics convention and not stand out, even tho... G. WILLOW WILSON Once I found out that I was playing 'Deathlok,' I unearthed my old comic book collection. I ... J. AUGUST RICHARDS I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me t... RAHUL KOHLI I grew up reading comics. I was primarily an 'X-Men' fan, but I definitely dressed up as Spi... JAKE EPSTEIN I didn't know the Green Lantern comics at all. I was a Superman reader. GEOFFREY RUSH I think there's too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques. TED NAIFEH When I first started writing comics, in the way-back days, Typhoid Mary was my explosive response to... ANN NOCENTI When I realized that people actually wrote comics, that it was a job people could do, I thought, ... KURT BUSIEK In comics, there are depths that don't reveal themselves immediately, and the stuff that you mig... DAVE GIBBONS I got cast on 'MADtv' as one of eight permanent cast members chosen from 8,000 comics who... ARTIE LANGE All of us who grew up reading comics love the memory of sitting under an apple tree with a comic boo... MARK WAID But I couldn't draw as fast as she requested. Thus, I tried to create the worst abomination of a... JHONEN VASQUEZ I love 'Archie' comics. MARK WAID I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, y... VICTORIA PRATT Comics don't like to see other comics do well. CARROT TOP When I was a school kid, I used to read lots of comics. This started me on drawing. I would make my ... MARCEL DZAMA I grew up reading '2000 AD' and the occasional Transformers and GI Joe comic, but when I cou... BEN PEEK I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourge... MARJANE SATRAPI I don't know who made the first Aquaman joke. I'm sure it was comics readers; maybe we all d... GEOFF JOHNS Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively. BILL GRIFFITH It's a pretty substantial impact. As far as the best of the back issue comics go, that stuff is gone... CHRIS WISE The deal with the Disney comics is to do stories and comics in a style that appeals to an older audi... DAN VADO At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics. SERGIO ARAGONES Comics are not theatre - there's a very important difference in that the reader controls the pag... KELLY SUE DECONNICK Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI The difference between 'Watchmen' and a normal comic book is this: With 'Batman's Go... ZACK SNYDER My love of comics did start with anime. CHARLES RICHARDS Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive... ALAN MOORE I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line wor... JEFFREY BROWN I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me. DANIEL CLOWES It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with... EDDIE CAMPBELL Someone told me that there's a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lan... GEOFFREY RUSH My father spent his entire early career as an illustrator for comic books: EC Comics like 'Tales... DEAN KAMEN The cool thing about 'Sweet Tooth' is that you can bring influences from the underground and... JEFF LEMIRE Comics is a powerful idea, but an idea that's been squandered, ignored and misunderstood for generat... SCOTT MCCLOUD As a boy, I devoured comics but never saw what we now describe as a picture book. ANTHONY BROWNE Let me tell you, writing comics is as hard as anything I've ever done - for me, at least. I'... WARREN SPECTOR Luckily for me, my father had impeccable taste. No contemporary collector was he. His treasure trove... JEFF KINNEY There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided t... J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning... NEIL GAIMAN
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LYDIA NETZER Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture. LYDIA M. CHILD That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters no... LYDIA M. CHILD Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame. LYDIA M CHILD The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, ... LYDIA MARIA CHILD That man's best works should be such bungling imitations of Nature's infinite perfection, matters no... LYDIA MARIA CHILD None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as... LYDIA MARIA CHILD A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melanchol... LYDIA MARIA CHILD Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age. LYDIA MARIA CHILD It is my mission to help in the breaking down of classes, and to make all men feel as if they were... LYDIA MARIA CHILD The eye of genius has always a plaintive expression, and its natural language is pathos. LYDIA MARIA CHILD Thy treasures of gold Are dim with the blood of the hearts thou hast sold; Thy home may be lo... LYDIA MARIA CHILD A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat. LYDIA MARIA CHILD There was a time when all these things would have passed me by, like the flitting figures of a theat... LYDIA MARIA CHILD Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar... LYDIA MARIA CHILD Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is... LYDIA MARIA CHILD Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angel... LYDIA MARIA CHILD Home -- that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and he... LYDIA MARIA CHILD But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later. LYDIA MARIA CHILD Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! LYDIA MARIA CHILD Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. I... LYDIA MARIA CHILD Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way LYDIA MARIA CHILD Reverence is the highest quality of man's nature; and that individual, or nation, which has it sligh... LYDIA MARIA CHILD But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later. LYDIA M. CHILD Genius hath electric power which earth can never tame. LYDIA M. CHILD I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as... LYDIA M. CHILD None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as... LYDIA M. CHILD You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to con... LYDIA M. CHILD