Comic Book Quotes - Page 12

• I had studied William Shakespeare in Oxford, England and I had this sort of high faluttin' education but I had also worked in comic books. So, I wasn't too proud to work in something like cartoons.

  Greg Weisman

  Book, Cartoon, Proud

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• The first movie I can remember seeing was The Creature From The Black Lagoon. And, I can remember hearing a radio play of Ray Bradbury's Mars Is Heaven. And when I cut my teeth on comic books, they were not the easy ones of today like Spiderman, Superman and The Hulk. they were Tales Of The Crypt, The Vaultkeeper, and that sort of thing.

  Stephen King

  Book, Cutting, Play

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• I think as soon as I figured out - and this must have been incredibly young - that comic books were made by humans, rather than being natural phenomenon likes trees or rocks, I just wanted to be one of the people who did that. So I was copying all kinds of cartoons that I was reading, comic books, and eventually learned how to draw cartoon books step-by-step and just, I don't know, I'm not an especially quick learner, but I sure was a dedicated one.

  Art Spiegelman

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  "Art Spiegelman’s Life in the 'Shadow of Maus'". Interview with Eric Wuestewald, www.motherjones.com. January 6, 2014.

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• I think the two jobs I dreamed of doing as a teenager were comic book artist and record cover illustrator. Maybe film director was in the mix as well, but that seemed to be an impossible mountain to climb.

  Dave McKean

  Jobs, Teenager, Book

  Source: thequietus.com

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• As a kid, I drew cartoon characters and comic book heroes. Spiderman and the X-Men were my favorites.

  Kadir Nelson

  Book, Hero, Character

  "Kadir Nelson: In-depth Written Interview". TeachingBooks.net interview at California studio in San Diego County, www.teachingbooks.net. September 7, 2010.

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• I'm never quite sure what I'm looking for in a comic book! It just jumps off the page somehow and hits you square between the eyeballs and you know that's the artist for the story.

  William Katt

  Book, Artist, Squares

  Source: comicsand.blogspot.com

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• It is very different. I mean, it was immediately different because it's a human being and it's not a vampire and it's not fighting monsters. This isn't the kind of movie that's got the comic book style of fighting to it. It was a bit more gritty.

  Kate Beckinsale

  Book, Mean, Fighting

  Interview with Tiffany Rose, screenrant.com. August 7, 2012.

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• I was not a comic book reader, but my son is. My son wasn't really interested in reading books, which was hard for me because I love to read. It just didn't come naturally to my boy. So we kind of found comic books because they were fascinating to him. They were great stories.

  Virginia Madsen

  Book, Reading, Son

  FaceBook post by Virginia Madsen from May 03, 2017

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• I have to read comic books all first, because now when you get into graphic novels, they are definitely in deep graphic.

  Virginia Madsen

  Book, Firsts, Comic

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto, whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that's respectable for adults to read.

  Adrian Tomine

  Book, Ghetto, Media

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• You start to get nervous when the value of a comic book or graphic novel is relative to the achievements of some other medium.

  Adrian Tomine

  Book, Achievement, Nervous

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I drew the same things that most boys drew - airplanes and cars and fire engines. Then later on I discovered comic books, and I began to create my own comic stories. I was a comic writer, even when I was five or six years old. I would just make up stories because I thought it was fun.

  Floyd Norman

  Fun, Book, Airplane

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I wasn't a huge fan of the comic book, but I definitely was of the cartoon series. I wasn't much for sitting around and reading as a kid, I preferred to be outside running around and playing sports, but I was absolutely thrilled to get the role of Colossus. I don't think I realised how popular the character was until I got the role and started doing some research; it was then that I really fell in love with the character of Colossus myself.

  Daniel Cudmore

  Sports, Running, Book

  Source: me.askmen.com

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• Well in the comic book world, I think the Hulk is the strongest, but I think I'd give him a heck of a fight!

  Daniel Cudmore

  Book, Fighting, Thinking

  "Daniel Cudmore Interview by Meg Brown". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• It's not always the style of tattooing but the rather the subject matter that drives me. I love tattooing anything from mythology to comic book superheroes.

  William Webb

  Book, Superhero, Style

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• I'm not a huge comic book fan, but I'm a closet fan of certain Marvel heroes, two of those being Iron Man, and the other being Guardians of the Galaxy, which I'm looking forward to.

  Kevin Feige

  Book, Hero, Men

  Source: screenrant.com

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• I am a huge comic book nerd and video game nerd, so to get to actually play one of those characters would be off the chain. It would be amazing.

  Zachary Levi

  Book, Character, Games

  "Zach Levi on Being a Disney Hunk in ‘Tangled’, A Singer, A Superhero & ‘Chuck’". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. November 18, 2010.

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• As far as comic books are concerned, I was always a Marvel guy for the most part, although I did follow DC a little. I don't know, honestly I'd just like to play whatever role [that] not just the studio, but the fans think I fit the best into. Because I think, especially in worlds like that, you've really got to do right by the fan base and stay in tune with what they are looking for and what they desire. I would just want to do right by them.

  Zachary Levi

  Book, Thinking, Play

  "Zach Levi on Being a Disney Hunk in ‘Tangled’, A Singer, A Superhero & ‘Chuck’". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. November 18, 2010.

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• Growing up, I didn't have any comic books, at all. But my friend had a trunk full of them, so comic books were like candy for me. I would go over to his house for a sleep-over, and I would just be devouring everything I could get my hands on. I knew the sleep-over was going to be over, and I was going to go back to my house and it was going to be Kipling.

  James Spader

  Growing Up, Book, Sleep

  Source: collider.com

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• It's always been a dream for me to play a comic book character.

  Celina Jade

  Dream, Book, Character

  "'Arrow' Interview: Celina Jade Opens Up About Shado". Interview with Ryan Rigley, www.mtv.com. April 3, 2013.

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• Comics are not illustration, any more than fiction is copywriting. Illustration is essentially the application of artistic technique or style to suit a commercial or ancillary purpose; not that cartooning can't be this (see any restaurant giveaway comic book or superhero media property as an example), but comics written and produced by a cartoonist sitting alone by him- or herself are not illustrations. They don't illustrate anything at all, they literally tell a story.

  Chris Ware

  Book, Superhero, Style

  "Interviews: On Cartooning". "POV", www.pbs.org.

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• I seem to have been cast several several times to do it. I think in this one, Phoenix is not purely evil. She was in the comic books at some point but the way the writers created her or we always talked about her, was that she was torn with her powers taking over and trying to control them at the same time. It was challenging to play which made it interesting for me to play this character.

  Famke Janssen

  Book, Character, Thinking

  "The Phoenix Rises as Famke Janssen and James Marsden Talk X-Men: The Last Stand". Interview, movieweb.com. May 23, 2006.

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• I felt slightly snobby about the genre. My pre-conceived notion of the comic book world had been: "Oh, that's nothing that I need to worry about!"

  Matthew William Goode

  Book, Worry, Needs

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Yes! I'm the slowest comic-book writer on Earth.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Book, Earth, Comic

  Interview with Christopher Bahn, www.avclub.com. April 5, 2007.

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• The love of writing comes at a very early age. For me, for instance, comic books so affected me. And a lot of people who come up to me and start talking about writing, when I start talking to them about the "Fantastic Four," they look at me aghast. They say, "'The Fantastic Four?' That's not literature." I say, "Yeah, but it was when I was 11 years old." This was literature.

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Writing, Talking

  Source: bigthink.com

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