Comic Quotes - Page 19

• When you read comic material and people aren't laughing how do you know they're listening.

  David Sedaris

  People, Laughing, Listening

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• Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.

  Garry Trudeau

  Political, Dumb, Information

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• Comic books themselves are getting more literate. And there are people who are screenwriters and television writers and novelists who are writing for the comics, for some reason, they love doing it and some of the art work in the comics, I mean it rivals anything you'll see hanging on the walls of museums, they're illustrations more than drawings and all the people are discovering this and they're turning on to it.

  Stan Lee

  Art, Wall, Book

  Source: movieweb.com

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• Comic books sort of follow with the move - if people see the movie and if they're interested in the character and want to see more of the character, they start buying the comic books. So a good movie helps the sale of the comic books and the comic books help the movie and one hand washes the other. So, I don't think there's any reason to think that comics will die out.

  Stan Lee

  Moving, Book, Character

  "Stan Lee and Andy Scheer Find Out Who Wants to Be Superhero?". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. August 13, 2007.

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• I had been writing comic books for years and I was doing them to please a publisher, who felt that comics are only read by very young children or stupid adults. And therefore, we have to keep the stories very simplistic... And those were all things I hated.

  Stan Lee

  Children, Stupid, Book

  "EXCLUSIVE: Stan Lee Calls Up MovieWeb to Talk Fantastic Four". Interview with Evan Jacobs, movieweb.com. November 11, 2005.

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• No matter how good a story is, if you're at a newsstand and you see a lot of comic books, you don't know how good the story is unless you read it. But you can spot the artwork instantly, and you know whether you like the artwork, whether it grabs you or not.

  Stan Lee

  Book, Stories, Matter

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 20, 2001.

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• I think comics will always be around. I think there's something nice about a comic book. People love to hold 'em, turn the pages, fold 'em up, roll 'em up, stick 'em in their back pocket, show 'em to a friend, and say, "Hey, look at this."

  Stan Lee

  Nice, Book, Thinking

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. June 20, 2001.

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• I had great affection for Dana Carvey, and I think we all thought, "Dana's the guy. There's the comic genius."

  Kurt Fuller

  Thinking, Guy, Genius

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I didn't like people rewriting my dialogue. I didn't like the fact that we'd start a comic with the Joker, and by the time we inked it, he would have turned into the Scarecrow.

  Neil Gaiman

  People, Rewriting, Facts

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. September 28, 2005.

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• I guess the one-liner kind of comic sounds like a guy who can talk and talk and whatever the subject is, he can pull out a one-liner, but I couldn't do that. I didn't like the association. I mean, I love Steven Wright, but so many people started saying "Steven Wright" to me, and I would get mad, because I never wanted to be thought of as copying anybody.

  Mitch Hedberg

  Mean, Mad, People

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. September 8, 2004.

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• I come from a very expressive family, so it's really not surprising that we became actors. There was a lot of real-life drama in our house. Some of it was drama, some of it was comedy and some of it was comic-tragedy.

  John Turturro

  Real, Drama, House

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• I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not. So it's hard for me to come up with things, because I don't write stuff, I don't write my act down.

  Lewis Black

  Writing, Stuff, Odd

  Interview with Ben Munson, www.avclub.com. October 3, 2011.

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• I kind of consider myself... I mean, I try to have my comedy be accessible, and if people are paying $30 to see me in a theater and they want to have their picture taken with me, it's not the end of the world. It's one of those things, where I'm not the only comic who does it. A lot of comics do it. If I'm doing a 4,000-seat venue, it might be a little bit of a different task, but it's all good.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Taken, Mean, People

  "A chat with Jim Gaffigan". Interview with Will Harris, www.bullz-eye.com. March 20, 2009.

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• I like comic conventions. I genuinely like comic conventions. I like wandering around from table to table; I like wandering up and down Artist's Alley and saying "Hello" to people. I like hanging out on the DC booth. I can't do that anymore. I'd like to, but I can't. I physically can't. If I stop moving, somebody will come up to me with something to sign, and if I sign it, somehow it's like ants sensing sugar. There will be fifty or a hundred people around me and then fire marshals will come and then I'm trapped in a crowd. It's bizarre.

  Neil Gaiman

  Moving, Artist, Fire

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• My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.

  Walter Mosley

  Book, Hero, Men

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• No true fan wants to go to Comic-Con and get assaulted with a marketing blitz about just any old show.

  Jim Lee

  Marketing, Fans, Want

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• As a comic, I used to know more about pop culture.

  Brian Posehn

  Culture, Used, Pops

  "Brian Posehn on why he hates Katy Perry's 'Firework'". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. July 12, 2013.

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• I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes.

  Jamie Hewlett

  Book, Comedy, Bigs

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• The jokes I used to do on 'Sex and the City' were always comic character things, and they were rarely hard jokes. As soon as you go up in front of people, it demands laughter.

  Michael Patrick King

  Sex, Laughter, Character

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• I think I would love a shot at remaking 'The Philadelphia Story,' as daunting as it is. I still think it's fantastic. I love the '30s comedies because they're allowed to be both comic and elegant, and the women are so complicated in them.

  Michael Patrick King

  Thinking, Philadelphia, Stories

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• I think too many comic book covers are way too busy, crammed with far too much information, both visual and verbal, that just becomes a dull noise.

  Chip Kidd

  Book, Thinking, Dull

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• You see people who are disenfranchised elsewhere coming to Comic Con and making lifetime friends. I love seeing the outcasts of society all bonding together.

  Scott Aukerman

  People, Together, Lifetime

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• I'm actually a little comic nerd myself.

  Kiowa Gordon

  Nerd, Littles

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• I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.

  Chris Lilley

  Dark, Bored, Tears

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The difference between 'Watchmen' and a normal comic book is this: With 'Batman's Gotham City,' you are transported to another world where that superhero makes sense; 'Watchmen' comes at it in a different way, it almost superimposes its heroes on your world, which then changes how you view your world through its prism.

  Zack Snyder

  Book, Hero, Views

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