#comics

When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved... we didn't have anyone standing over us. ↗

— Robert Crumb

#absolute freedom #anyone #best #best way #comics

Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the '70s. ↗

— Glenn Danzig

#comics #course #fan #i #really

Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#art #because #being #comics #fine

Comics were going down for the second time and here, all of a sudden, came this thing and for the next fifteen years, romance comics were about the top sellers in the field; they outsold everything. ↗

— Gil Kane

#came #comics #down #everything #field

I'm only 24 so I like to think I'm still close enough to 17 to still remember what it was like. Besides, I could just fake it and get away with it... it's not like there are any teenagers that still read comics. ↗

— Robert Kirkman

#away #besides #close #comics #could

Well, don't tell Steve Niles but I just don't think horror works in comics. ↗

— Robert Kirkman

#horror #i #just #steve #tell

I've heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn't even want to do it any more because he'd already had all of the fun of working it out. It's the same thing with these Frank comics. ↗

— Jim Woodring

#alfred hitchcock #already #any #because #by the time

'Comic book' has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So someone will call 'Die Hard' a 'comic-book movie,' when it has nothing to do with comic books. I'd rather have comics be the vehicle by which stories are told. ↗

— Frank Miller

#books #call #come #comic #comic book

Anyone should be able to read comics. ↗

— Ted Rall

#anyone #comics #read #should

But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression. ↗

— Bill Sienkiewicz

#comics #expression #personal #personal expression #smaller