Graphic Novels Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• I think that people are really hungry for original content. I think there's a sense of reboots and remakes, and we're lacking in any sense of originality in media. So, I think the people who want something like this which has a graphic novel feel or comic book feel but that is designed and created for the medium of television, I think that is something is very appealing to a lot of people.

  Miles Millar

  Book, Thinking, Media

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• People are so afraid to say the word "comic". It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to "graphic novel" and that disappears.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Men, Thinking, People

  "How to film a graphic novel". June 16, 2011.

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• I never think there's any competition between films. I root for everybody's films. I especially have a fond place in my heart for graphic novels and comics.

  Bruce Willis

  Heart, Thinking, Roots

  Source: collider.com

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• To me any given story has its appropriate form. There might be some story I get involved with that's begging to be a graphic novel, so that will have to be that way.

  Dave Eggers

  Stories, Might, Way

  Interview with Justine Sharrock, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2009.

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• Tightly-plotted, well-researched and beautifully drawn, this book is a real delight. Garen Ewing's mix of engaging characters, exciting old-school adventure, attractive ligne claire artwork and fluid storytelling makes The Rainbow Orchid easily one of the best graphic novels of the year.

  Bryan Talbot

  Real, Book, Character

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• In many ways, my entire graphic novel career was a long diversion. Originally, all I wanted to do was to be an underground cartoonist and maybe bring out a groovy underground mag.

  Alan Moore

  Careers, Long, Way

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• I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is just a way of narrating - it's just a media type.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Media, Feelings, Way

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• I mistrust the term graphic novel because it sounds like a good thing to put on a tee-shirt. That's why the French like them.

  Terry Pratchett

  Sound, Shirts, Good Things

  Source: bobneilson.org

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• I read a lot of graphic novels - some of my favorites graphic novelists or artists are Rebecca Kraatz, Gabrielle Bell, Graham Roumieu, Tom Gauld, and Renee French.

  Matthea Harvey

  Artist, Novelists, Bells

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I've been drawing since I could hold a pencil. I've got many ideas that are still to be drawn out, but the couple collaborations in development are with other actor/writers for graphic novel/comic that could potentially become a film project.

  Jade Hassoune

  Couple, Ideas, Drawing

  Source: www.nerdprobs.com

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• In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.

  Gene Luen Yang

  Teacher, Reading, Enemy

  "It’s a Coder! It’s a Teacher! It’s a Kick-Ass Graphic Novelist!". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September/October 2015.

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• My reading preferences are kind of all over the board - I read nonfiction, I read graphic novels.

  Dav Pilkey

  Reading, Nonfiction, Boards

  "Dav Pilkey on 'Dog Man,' Mind-Blowing Graphic Novels, and More". Interview with Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. September 20, 2016.

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• The ability to get inside your character's head in a graphic novel is really fun and useful because one, you can really define the character's voice and two, it's a way easier way to convey what the character's thinking by actually laying out what he's thinking.

  Eric Kripke

  Fun, Character, Thinking

  "'Supernatural' Creator Eric Kripke Opens Up About His New Comic 'Jacked'". Interview with Stacey Grant, www.mtv.com. November 23, 2015.

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• Graphic novel genre become really quite popular. It's really a big screen film genre that they have successfully moved into the small screen.

  Dustin Clare

  Film, Bigs, Genre

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• You work for so long on a graphic novel that it's easy to question your ideas or to burn out on drawing. But you plug away at it and trust in the story you want to tell. It's a marathon, but the finished product is really satisfying.

  Vera Brosgol

  Ideas, Drawing, Long

  "Five questions for Vera Brosgol". Interview with Elissa Gershowitz and Katie Bircher, www.hbook.com. September 12, 2016.

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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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• The graphic novel form really interests me and I like the freedom that format offers.

  Walter Hill

  Form, Interest, Offers

  Source: collider.com

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• Graphic novels and comic books offer an easy foothold into that world, and screenwriters and studio execs gravitate toward those, because I think they can see it all right there. It's like, "Here's what the movie looks like."

  Ryan Reynolds

  Book, Thinking, Looks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It really does feel, partly because of graphic novels kids read, like there's a lot of freedom with how you can use both images and words, because we think in both of those ways.

  Lynne Rae Perkins

  Kids, Thinking, Doe

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• As you know, transforming such a big book [The Gunslinger Born] into graphic novel format is really a process of translation.

  Robin Furth

  Book, Born, Process

  Source: www.graphicnovelreporter.com

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• I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed of buying comics... I'm not a graphic novelist. I am a cartoonist and I make comics and I am very happy about it.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Hate, Publishing House, Novelists

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• The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case in point than FROM HELL, Alan Moore's best graphic novel to date, brilliantly illustrated by Eddie Campbell. It's hard to describe just how much better the book is. It's like, "If the movie was an episode of Battlestar Galactica with a guest appearance by the Smurfs and everyone spoke Dutch, the graphic novel is Citizen Kane with added sex scenes and music by your favourite ten bands and everyone in the world you ever hated dies at the end." That's how much better it is.

  Warren Ellis

  Sex, Book, Bad Ass

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• Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.'

  Martin Filler

  Design, Firsts, Architecture

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• I knew that we'd have a big following because the graphic novel [ The Walking Dead] is so popular, and I knew that with Frank Darabont and Gale Ann Hurd at the helm that we were doing something very special.

  Laurie Holden

  Walking Dead, Special, Gale

  Source: collider.com

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