#comics

As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#comic #comics #fan #foreign #i

I did auditions at a club called the Comedy Connection. They wanted nothing to do with me. But one night they were doing a night of all women comics, and they invited me to do that. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#called #club #comedy #comics #connection

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

Anyone should be able to read comics. ↗

— Ted Rall

#anyone #comics #read #should

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

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

Psychics. I love to prove you wrong. ↗

— Jim Pascoe

#hellboy #love

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