Comic Quotes - Page 20

• My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.

  Jonathan Hickman

  Book, Goal, Design

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• I think Hellblazer is quite unique. In a comic world dominated by American characters (nothing wrong with that per se) Constantine was unashamedly British. A certain kind of miserablist British

  Peter Milligan

  Character, Unique, Thinking

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• I find it hard to get enthusiastic about hotels because, as a touring comic, I spend a lot of time in them.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Touring, Hotel, Enthusiastic

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• The basic function of a comic is stand-up because it's so straightforward and simple. If the audience don't laugh, you didn't do your job. I've had some audiences where I didn't care if they laughed or not because they were either too drunk or stupid.

  Marcus Brigstocke

  Jobs, Stupid, Simple

  "60 SECONDS: Marcus Brigstocke". Interview with Paul Kevan, metro.co.uk. June 27, 2007.

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• As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics.

  Ben Katchor

  Book, Kids, World

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. April 22, 2011.

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• Gamma rays are the sort of radiation you should avoid. Want proof? Just remember how the comic strip character "The Hulk" became big, green, and ugly.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Character, Science, Want

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.105, W. W. Norton & Company

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• An entertainer is someone who pleases others, and an artist tries to please himself. An artist is on a journey: they don't know where they're going, what is going to happen, but they know they are not there yet, and there is some continuity and growth. I think of myself as an entertainer: I'm a performing entertainer, I'm a stand-up comic. But there's an artist at work here, too. One who interprets his world through his own filter.

  George Carlin

  Thinking, Artist, Journey

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• Adults acting like children and children acting like adults is generally a pretty reliable comic device.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Children, Acting, Adults

  Source: screenrant.com

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• In a comic strip, you can suggest motion and time, but it's very crude compared to what an animator can do. I have a real awe for good animation.

  Bill Watterson

  Real, Animation, Crude

  Source: www.tcj.com

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• If I could have somehow been the kind of artist who could crank out two or three issues a year, that's different. That's sort of what it's all about, to get this thing out so that there's some kind of continuity. But to do a comic book every year or two was just so anti-climactic.

  Daniel Clowes

  Book, Artist, Years

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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• Alfred Hitchcock talked about planning out his movies so meticulously that when he was actually shooting and editing, it was the most boring thing in the world. But drawing comics isn't like shooting a movie. You can shoot a movie in a few days and be done with it, but drawing a comic takes years and years... That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.

  Daniel Clowes

  Morning, Editing, Years

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. October 19, 2011.

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• There is no decision to be more or less comic. I don't feel more or less humorous in my day-to-day. These things are accidental.

  Alexis Taylor

  Humorous, Decision, Feels

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I think Spider-Man [film], the first one particularly, really figured out the formula of, "Oh, tell the story that they told in the comic. It was compelling. That's why it's iconic."

  Joss Whedon

  Men, Thinking, Spiders

  Source: collider.com

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• My favorite part of Comic-Con? The groupies. Man, they have loose morals, really. Men, women, I'm just saying that it gets weird on Sunday night. No, that's sadly never happened.

  Joss Whedon

  Sunday, Night, Men

  Source: collider.com

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• The absolute favorite part of Comic-Con is seeing like a Mass Effect guy hanging out with a Sailor Moon, and they're just having a great time. Nerds, we love what we love with a passion and sometimes it's an angry passion, and to see that all sort of bleed out and everybody just connect.

  Joss Whedon

  Passion, Moon, Guy

  Source: collider.com

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• I didn't read comics, growing up. I watched a lot of movies, and those were my comic books. And then, my exposure really increased by becoming affiliated with Spider-Man.

  Emma Stone

  Growing Up, Book, Men

  "Emma Stone and Marc Webb Talk THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN, Honoring the Marvel Icon, and Why Andrew Garfield is the Perfect Spider-Man". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 20, 2012.

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• Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Roles, Politician, States

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• An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.

  James Joyce

  Art, Joy, Feelings

  James Joyce, Kevin Barry, Conor Deane (2000). “Occasional, Critical, and Political Writing”, p.102, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Good manners, Madam, are had these days not
  For your asking, nor mine, nor what-we-used-to-be's.
  The day is a loud grenade that bursts a smile
  Of serious weeds in a comic lily plot.

  Allen Tate

  Weed, Good Man, Plot

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.204, Macmillan

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• Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so rich with irony that it's a better subject for a comic novel than a column.... On one coast the cops are busting sex workers on Eighth Avenue, dragging them downtown to night court where they pay the fine and go right back to their corner; on another they're charging Heidi Fleiss with pandering in a town in which the verb is an art form.

  Anna Quindlen

  Art, Sex, Home

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• There is only one vice, which may be found in life with as strong features, and as high a colouring as needs be employed by any satyrist or comic poet; and that is AVARICE.

  David Hume

  Strong, Color, Vices

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.923, Delphi Classics

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• A guide book is addressed to those who plan to follow the traveler, doing what he has done, but more selectively. A travel book, in its purest, is addressed to those who do not plan to follow the traveler at all, but who require the exotic or comic anomalies, wonders and scandals of the literary form romance which their own place or time cannot entirely supply.

  Paul Fussell

  Travel, Book, Romance

  Paul Fussell (1982). “Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars”, p.203, Oxford University Press

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• Philip Galanes makes his debut with a novel that is both heartbreaking and deftly comic, the story of a young man struggling with his most primitive desires--wanting and needing. It is a novel about the complex relationships between parents and children, a story of loss and of our unrelenting need for acknowledgment, to be seen as who we are. And in the end it is simply a love story for our time.

  A.M. Homes

  Children, Struggle, Loss

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• Comic-Con is a special kind of crazy.

  Denis O'Hare

  Crazy, Special, Kind

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• The comic world has its own limitations, as everything does. I adore it, I respect it, but it's not going to take over all of me.

  Joss Whedon

  Doe, World, Adore

  "Joss Whedon" by Tasha Robinson, tv.avclub.com. August 08, 2007.

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