Comic Quotes - Page 6

• If you talk about genres - I don't care if you're talking about war, Westerns, science fiction, horror, fantasy, humor, romance - anything you can find, strolling the aisles of a Borders or a Barnes & Noble, I can bring you many comic books representing each genre.

  Michael Uslan

  War, Book, Talking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Part of battle has been getting Hollywood to recognize that comic books and superheroes are not synonymous. That's been a huge breakthrough, just in recent years really, and as a result of that recent breakthrough, we've had movies like 300, Road to Perdition, and A History of Violence, that very few people realize were based on comic books and graphic novels. It's very important to make that differentiation.

  Michael Uslan

  Book, Years, People

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• I have great admiration and respect for the editors, writers, and artists of the comic books. They're turning out, I don't know, maybe 100 Batman stories a year, and the character turns 70 years old in May. It's incredible: for 70 years, on a weekly basis, every Wednesday, there is some Batman story coming out, if not a bunch of Batman stories coming out.

  Michael Uslan

  Book, Character, Artist

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There have been so many interpretations of both Batman and the Joker in the comic books themselves over the decades, from one extreme to the next, and in the media, from one extreme to the next.

  Michael Uslan

  Book, Media, Next

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• In the sense that Watchmen references movies, comic books, pop culture in general. It knows it's a movie. I really do like movies that ride that fine line, the razor's edge between parody and supporting the fake movie part of the movie.

  Zack Snyder

  Book, Fake, Culture

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• An English philosopher said that whatever is cosmic is also comic. Do the best you can and don't take it so seriously.

  Bernie Glassman

  Philosopher, Said, Cosmic

  Jeff Bridges, Bernie Glassman (2013). “The Dude and the Zen Master”, p.16, Penguin

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• I don't know who they are[my characters] . They're entirely invented characters. Maybe that's how I've been able to write so many books, because there are no boundaries for me. I can write a completely fantastical story like "Swept Away" or "Blinded by the Light" and then a non-comic drama like "Chicxulub" or something like "Birnam Wood" that has autobiographical underpinnings. Why not?

  T.C. Boyle

  Drama, Book, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When somebody asks me "What are your comic books about?" or "What are your songs about?" there is no answer and I feel like an idiot not having an answer, like I don't know what I am making. I really do know what I'm making, but it's not one thing, it's everything I like, and I see no reason to leave out any of that.

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Song, Book, Answers

  Source: therumpus.net

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• If I like hardcore straight-edge punk music, gentle psychedelic folk music, gangster rap, indie-rock with a lot of guitar pedals, and I find inspiration from all these things in different songs of mine, shouldn't I be allowed to make any of this kind of music that I want? And it's the same for the comic books, why should I only make autobiographical stories? Or only political stories? Or only superhero stories? Or only comedy stories? I am a bit creatively desperate, when I sit with a pen and paper I am desperate for ANY idea that makes me excited, I don't care what kind of idea it is!

  Jeffrey Lewis

  Song, Inspiration, Rap

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think it's nice to get a break from all of the big Hollywood comic book action-movies and see something that's relatable and funny and interesting.

  Aubrey Plaza

  Nice, Book, Thinking

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• I'm a big comic book nerd so every time I'm in costume and see everyone in costume I'm just like "This is sick."

  Franz Drameh

  Book, Sick, Nerd

  Source: www.ign.com

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• I became a writer through drawing first and then a comic book obsession - Marvel Comics, in particular. I invented a world of superheroes starting in third grade with my classmate, Wai-Kwan Wong. In a classroom of forty kids, let's just say there was a lot of undirected time. But this was good because I was a dreamy boy.

  Adam Ross

  Book, Kids, Boys

  Source: therumpus.net

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• [Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense.

  Ray Stevenson

  People, Pirate, Victim

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I had been at Comic-Con, and I have the same manager as Bob Morley, so we ended up at a Warner Bros. party. I met Jason Rothenberg for the first time, and he's a fan of Black Sails and Shameless and some of my work, and was like, "Hey, we've been having trouble casting this part. I think you'd be perfect for it, if you'd be willing to come up and have some fun for some episodes."

  Zach McGowan

  Fun, Party, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• I would make a comic for Rolling Stone every two weeks, because they're biweekly. And then I would make weekly comics for my weekly papers. It was on two parallel tracks. And then they all got collected in a book.

  David Rees

  Book, Two, Track

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I just wanted a really simple, dramatic way so that fans, people who were reading my comic, would be like, "This is something different." Just to flag it, almost.

  David Rees

  Reading, Simple, People

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• I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites. But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I'd read it while I ate my lunch. I'm also probably one of the few remaining holdouts who hasn't consented to making the e-book versions of all my work, which is annoying to some of my publishers.

  Adrian Tomine

  Book, Home, Hands

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I think a lot of the bells and whistles that become available to you would be impossible to resist for some people, so it's just never going to be a real stand-in version of your comic. People will have to take advantage of the ability to have sound, or zoom in and out, whatever it is.

  Adrian Tomine

  Real, Thinking, People

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• I got into comics about the same time as music. By 12 years old, I had discovered my dad's killer comic book collection filled with Silver Age books from his youth...early Spider-Man, Thor, Fantastic Four, The Hulk, Detective Comics, Action Comics, you name it. Seeing those old books got me interested in new comics, so my friends and I would hit the local comic shop every Saturday to pick up the cool titles of my generation.

  Alan Robert

  Dad, Book, Men

  Source: puregrainaudio.com

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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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• I do think that hip-hop has a relationship with comic book culture, and Kung Fu movies too, for that matter.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Book, Thinking, Hip Hop

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop as it is comic book lore.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Book, Hero, Ideas

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• Take emceeing, one of the foundations of hip-hop culture. A guy grabs a mic, steps up on stage and becomes a spokesman; the voice of the people. If anything, that might be the strongest similarity between hip-hop and comic books, with super heroes, like many rappers, fighting to make a change.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Hero, Book, Fighting

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• Much of hip-hop, like comic books, is fantastical by nature, too.

  Ali Shaheed Muhammad

  Book, Hip Hop, Hips

  Source: www.highsnobiety.com

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• I started a funny book from the 1930s called The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is a comic genius.

  William Gurstelle

  Book, Genius, 1930s

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