#comics

I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid. ↗

— Jonathan Lethem

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Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard. ↗

— Scott McCloud

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I had a lot of ideas on how comics worked and pretty early on I had this idea that it would be fun to explain them in comics form. ↗

— Scott McCloud

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I love comic book movies, and Marvel Comics obviously are the best. ↗

— Maria Menounos

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Plays have been made of my comics. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

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Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary. ↗

— Shel Silverstein

#commentary #humor #less #more #reflect

What I’ve noticed in a lot of other cartoonists is a sullen resentfulness about their lack of attention and tiny checking accounts. I vowed back in the days when I had no money that I would not allow that kind of bitterness to overtake me. . . . Cartooning, in general, is a very solitary occupation, and it breeds all sorts of self-punishing thinking ↗

— Matt Groening

#money

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics. ↗

— Mark Millar

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I always wanted to be a writer, but Alan Moore's work and help inspired me to write comics. In some ways the biggest influence on me writing was Punk. There was the idea that you could do something by simply doing it. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#comics #writing-punk #inspirational