Comic Book Quotes - Page 3

• Am I a guy who writes about himself in a comic book, or am I just a character in that book? If I die, will that character keep going, or will he just fade away?

  Harvey Pekar

  Book, Writing, Character

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• I was also an Action Comic fan when I was a young kid and those comic books affected me and Superman is - he's the one. He's the first one. He's the one. He's the one everybody is always compared to.

  Charles Roven

  Book, Kids, Firsts

  Source: collider.com

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• When I was a kid, I lived in this small town way out in the country. We had three TV channels and one radio station. I couldn't even get my hands on good comic books. My aunt, who is a librarian, gave me Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings," Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Little House on the Prairie," and Lewis's "The Chronicles of Narnia." They were such incredible treasures to have in my somewhat mundane country life.

  Nick Offerman

  Country, Book, Kids

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• Comic books aren't nerdy. You'd have to be an idiot to think computers are nerdy.

  Adam Brody

  Book, Thinking, Idiot

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• I would draw my own comic book characters listening to metal. The drawing and music kind of went hand in hand.

  Alan Robert

  Book, Character, Hands

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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• Normal men retain their childish longing for a woman to mother them. At adolescence a new desire is added. They want a girl to allure them. When you put these two together, you have the typical male yearning that Wonder Woman satisfies.

  William Moulton Marston

  Girl, Mother, Men

  "Men Of Tomorrow". Book by Gerard Jones, October 12, 2004.

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• I love comic books and always did as a kid.

  Rick Moody

  Children, Book, Kids

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• And I had worked at the comic-book store almost by accident, because I was deciding to make a living as an artist, be it as an art tutor or illustrator, and that's how I wanted to make my living.

  Brian Michael Bendis

  Art, Book, Comic

  Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. August 9, 2007.

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• Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.

  Sam Raimi

  Book, Thinking, Way

  "Sam Raimi Interviewed - SPIDER-MAN 3" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 22, 2007.

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• I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.

  Harvey Pekar

  Book, Thinking, People

  Harvey Pekar, Michael Rhode (2008). “Harvey Pekar: Conversations”, p.106, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. I was like what do you mean he's not real. And she thought I was crying because it’s like Santa Claus is not real and I was crying because there was no one coming with enough power to save us.

  Geoffrey Canada

  Mom, Mother, Real

  "Waiting for 'Superman'". www.imdb.com. January 22, 2010.

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• There is no substitute for practical experience, and if you want to write about people you ought to put down that comic book and go out and meet some of them rather than studying the way that Stan Lee or Chris Claremont depict people.

  Alan Moore

  Book, Writing, People

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• I had at some point the epiphany that if I wanted to be a writer, maybe I should stop thinking about writing, or stop writing about writing, and actually write.

  Matt Fraction

  Writing, Thinking, Epiphany

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• Your writing is still yours, no matter what the contract or your editor might say. Trust your gut. It knows when you're screwing up. Your brain will lie to you. It loves the paycheck, it loves positive feedback. Your gut is under no obligation to make you feel good.

  Gail Simone

  Lying, Writing, Editors

  "Survival Tips for the Newbie Writer" by Gail Simone, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 4, 2011.

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• The wish to be super strong is a healthy wish, a vital compelling, power-producing desire. The more the Superman-Wonder Woman picture stories build up this inner compulsion by stimulating the child's natural longing to battle and overcome obstacles, particularly evil ones, the better chance your child has for self-advancement in the world.

  William Moulton Marston

  Strong, Children, Self

  "Why 100,000,000 Americans Read Comics". The American Scholar, Volume 13, No. 1 (p. 40), 1943.

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• Comics speak, without qualm or sophistication, to the innermost ears of the wishful self. The response is like that of a thirsty traveler who suddenly finds water in the desert - he drinks to satiation.

  William Moulton Marston

  Self, Qualms About, Water

  "The American Scholar Winter", 1943/4 issue, (pp. 35-44), 1943.

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• I worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week for years. Being a comic book artist is like sentencing yourself to life imprisonment at hard labor in solitary confinement. I don't think I'd do it again.

  Wally Wood

  Book, Artist, Thinking

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• I met a bunch of comic-book writers at the Metropolis convention and there was such an interesting discussion about the story of 'Supergirl' and trying to get it right. It can be a challenge, because you don't want it to be the same as the Superman story.

  Helen Slater

  Book, Interesting, Challenges

  "Helen Slater Talks About Smallville". movieweb.com. November 1, 2007.

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• It seems that every movie is a remake of something that was better when it was first released in a foreign language, as a 1960s TV show, or even as a comic book. Now you’ve got theme park rides as the source material of movies. The only things left are breakfast cereal mascots. In our lifetime, we will see Johnny Depp playing Captain Crunch.

  Alan Moore

  Book, Cereal, Tv Shows

  "Alan Moore On Watchmen’s “Toxic Cloud” And Creativity V. Big Business". Interview with Susan Karlin, www.fastcompany.com. February 14, 2012.

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• Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.

  Method Man

  Book, Eight, Years

  FaceBook post by Method Man from Aug 19, 2015

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• I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.

  Carl Hiaasen

  Book, Years, Scripts

  "Carl Hiaasen: 'My humour has always come from anger'". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. March 5, 2011.

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• It's like so great to be in Toronto and to see everything that's in the books and everything they reference and to be able to hang out in those places and go to those bookstores and those comic book stores and those music stores, and like have that, from the books onto the screen, is so cool and I'm glad to have been part of that.

  Mary Elizabeth Winstead

  Book, Toronto, Able

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm a huge comic book collector. When I was a kid, I had both Marvel and DC. I was my own librarian. I made card files. I had origin stories of all the characters, and cross-referenced when they appeared in other comic books. I was full on.

  James Mangold

  Book, Character, Kids

  "'The Wolverine': New film cuts deep into Hugh Jackman hero" by Anthony Breznican, www.ew.com. January 08, 2013.

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• There was a sort of irony in the fact that these [superhero] characters - many of whom in that period, the Golden Age, had been evolved to fight the Nazis - were themselves very much in the Nazi ideal. The idea that you can solve problems through physical strength, by being stronger and more dominant and more powerful - that is fascism. I mean, that's it, that's the essence of fascism. I don't think the creators of the superheroes or the kids who were reading them at the time were the slightest bit aware of it.

  Michael Chabon

  Powerful, Reading, Kids

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• My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.

  Sherman Alexie

  Father, Lying, Book

  "Encore: Living Outside Tribal Lines". "Moyers & Company" with Bill Moyers, billmoyers.com. May 31, 2013.

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