#comics

Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports. ↗

— Will Eisner

#art

Because that’s what a comic is, ultimately: a collection of pages. It’s not a flatpanel or a touchscreen, even though that’s where it might eventually be displayed. It’s a page. ↗

— John Heffernan

#comic-books #comics #art

Around, around the sun we go, the moon goes 'round the earth, we do not die of death - we die of vertigo. ↗

— James O'Barr

#graphic-novels #james-o-barr #the-crow #death

What makes it worth it though, is I love drawing. I LOVE IT. I love making comics. I love starting a new page and buying new paper, ink and brushes. I love telling stories! I love the people I work with, I love the people I meet. I love thinking about the syntax and language of comics. I love esoteric discussions about the comic book industry. I love the opportunities I’ve had in life because of comics. The second I stop loving it I will find something else to do. Comics are hard work. Comics are relentless. Comics will break your heart. Comics are monetarily unsatisfying. Comics don’t offer much in terms of fortune and glory, but comics will give you complete freedom to tell the stories you want to tell, in ways unlike any other medium. Comics will pick you up after it knocks you down. Comics will dust you off and tell you it loves you. And you will look into it’s eyes and know it’s true, that you love comics back. ↗

— Becky Cloonan

#life #freedom

Comics are drawings, not photographs, and as such they present a subjective view of reality. ↗

— Frederik L. Schodt

#culture #japan #manga #japan

I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result. ↗

— Edward W. Said

#comics #liberation #subversion #liberalism

There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic. ↗

— Jo Brand

#boxes #comics #fairly #friends #great

It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much. ↗

— Eddie Campbell

#business #comics #much #muck #out

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#had #i #just #little #old

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#comics #i #i love #individual #love