Comic Quotes - page 2

I did not want to put myself on the line, as an Australian playing Britain's greatest comic actor. The fans of Sellers are obsessive, possessive - and aggressive. I did not want to risk their anger - or my own reputation. (Geoffrey Rush)
To be comic is merely to be playful, but wit is a serious matter. To laugh at it is to confess that you do not understand. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
I despise the comic industry, but I will always love the comic medium. View quote
Alan Moore
To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films. View quote
Alan Moore
In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic things, and I did so. View quote
William Saroyan
In the world of comic books, "troublemaker" means someone who has some sense of dignity. View quote
Frank Miller
It's not movies and it's not "fine art." The beauty of a comic is that it's clear, direct communication. My work is getting simpler and more cartoony because I'm much more interested in communication now than in any illustrative value. View quote
Frank Miller
The method of producing comics in Japan is very hectic, but it's also rewarding because it's possible to do both the story and art all by yourself. In this way, it's possibly to bring out one's individuality. If this idea appeals to you, I call on you to try drawing your own manga. View quote
Akira Toriyama
I do not believe-indeed, I deem it a comic blunder to believe-that the exercise of reason is sufficient to explain our condition and where necessary to remedy it, but I do believe that the exercise of reason is at all times necessary... View quote
Peter Medawar
I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time... View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Everything in nature is lyrical in its ideal essence, tragic in its fate, and comic in its existence. (George Santayana)
I think the reason I choose the comic approach so often is because it's harder, therefore affording me the opportunity to show off. View quote
Rita Mae Brown
The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of. View quote
Joss Whedon
When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I have ever dreamed has come true a thousand times. View quote
Elvis Presley
I'm really interested with the way light plays on images and one of the artists that really reawakened my interest in comic books was Frank Miller and his treatment of Daredevil, and then Wolverine and, of course, Batman. View quote
James Marsters
To me, Clark Kent in a phone booth and Houdini in a packing crate, they were one and the same thing," he would learnedly expound at WonderCon or Angoulême or to the editor of The Comics Journal. "You weren't the same person when you came out as when you went in. View quote
Michael Chabon
As for comics, one has only to turn to the characteristic output of Marvel Comics, for the period from about 1961 to about 1975, to find not an expression of base and cynical impulses but of good, old-fashioned liberal humanism of a kind that may strike us today, God help us, as quaint, but which nevertheless appealed, in story after story, to ideals such as tolerance, technological optimism, and self-sacrifice for the benefit of others. View quote
Michael Chabon
It took Marvel Comics years to begin to put together any worthwhile superheroines. The first crop was, to a gal, embarrassingly disappointing. They had all the measly powers that fifties and sixties male chauvinism could contrive to bestow on a superwoman. View quote
Michael Chabon
[Comics] were viewed as the literary equivalent of bubblegum cards, meant to be poked into the spokes of a young mind where they would produce a satisfying-but entirely bogus-rumble of pleasure. View quote
Michael Chabon
Comics seem to be cooking these days. It's like being a rock star. View quote
Art Spiegelman
A comic writer should of all others be the least excused for deviating from nature, since it may not be always so easy for a serious poet to meet with the great and the admirable; but life every where furnishes an accurate observer with the ridiculous. (Henry Fielding)
As a kid growing up in the 1950s I became acutely aware of the changes taking place in American culture and I must say I didn't much like it. I witnessed the debasement of architecture, and I could see a decline in the quality of things like comic books and toys, things made for kids. Old things seemed to have more life, more substance, more humanity in them. View quote
Robert Crumb
The Socratic demonstration of the ultimate unity of tragic and comic drama is forever lost. But the proof is in the art of Chekhov. View quote
George Steiner
Tragedy dramatizes human life as potentiality and fulfillment. Its virtual future, or Destiny, is therefore quite different from that created in comedy. Comic Destiny is Fortune-what the world will bring, and the man will take or miss, encounter or escape; tragic Destiny is what the man brings, and the world will demand of him. That is his Fate. View quote
Susanne Langer
One of the things that kept most comics from being monthly was that very few artists could produce 24 pages per month. Jack Kirby was very much the exception to the rule, but his towering presence at Marvel started to dictate the whole shape of the industry-and that's where problems set in! View quote
John Byrne