#comics

My wife and I take what we call our Friday comedy day off. We watch standup comics on TV. The raunchier the better. We love Eddie Izzard. ↗

— Gene Hackman

#call #comedy #comics #day #eddie

We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child. ↗

— Jessica Hagedorn

#child #comics #drama #eight #either

For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States. ↗

— Bill Sienkiewicz

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Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

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One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were definitely an outlet for us. ↗

— Brian Michael Bendis

#books #comics #definitely #i #i see

I used to read comics when I was a kid. ↗

— Jeff Bridges

#i #kid #read #used

I'm not sure anybody's ready to see me in a drama. And loving movies so much, I've seen a lot of comics try to make that transition too fast, and it can be detrimental. And I don't think I've had as much success as I need in the comedy genre to open up those opportunities. ↗

— Seann William Scott

#comedy #comics #detrimental #drama #fast

Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics. ↗

— Mickey Spillane

#became #books #captain #captain america #comic

Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects. ↗

— Bill Sienkiewicz

#comics #life #lot #my life #really

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

— Bill Sienkiewicz

#comics #expression #personal #personal expression #smaller