Comic Artists Quotes

#1. Comic artists have always been part of my social circle. I just like hanging out with artists, and I always see them at conventions or a store signing or something. "Hey, we should do something together."

Mark Millar

#2. One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show results, but they don't show (because it's difficult to show) the hero or the villain making a choice.

Seth Godin

#3. Comic books, if you're adapting a comic book - like X-Men, for example - you've got 40 years of amazing stories to dig into, things that incredible artists have been thinking about for decades.

David Hayter

#4. There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.

Maya Angelou

#5. I can't go on to page two until I can get page one as perfect as I can make it. That might mean I will rewrite and rewrite page one 20, 30, 50, 100 times.

Dean Koontz

#6. Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior.

Henry Ossawa Tanner

#7. I'm very much influenced by your traditional comic book artists like Jack Kirby, Alex Toth and Walter Simonson. Their styles were sort of what I was gravitating towards.

Tim Fish

#8. I feel like there are comic book artists who are comic book artists, and then there's comic book artists who are cartoonists.

Jeff Lemire

#9. I try to do a lot of asymmetrical, triangular compositions - I find those work really well for comic book covers in that portrait mode, and I don't always see that in other artists.

Jim Lee

#10. An idea is a light turned on in a man's soul. Comic-strip artists are in the habit of representing it by means of a light bulb flashing on, above the head of a character who has suddenly grasped an idea. In simple, primitive terms, this is an appropriate symbol.

Ayn Rand

#11. Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times.

Garry Trudeau

#12. When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz.

Joe Simon

#13. Comic-strip artists do not make good husbands, and God knows they do not make good comic strips.

Don Herold

#14. I had discovered that a person does not have to be this or be that or be anything, not even oneself. One is free.

Walker Percy

#15. Reconciliation is a deep practice that we can do with our listening and our mindful speech. To reconcile means to bring peace and happiness to nations, people, and members of our family ... In order to reconcile, you have to possess the art of deep listening.

Nhat Hanh

#16. One of the great things about being involved with comics is that those people are devoted to their characters, writers and artists. The average comic reader isn't casual about their habit.

Charlie Huston

#17. I never meant to lie to you." I do hear it in his voice. He means it. But lying isn't something you do by accident.

Jessica Love

#18. [T]he longer you stay skeptical, doubtful, intellectually uncomfortable, the better it is for you.

Joseph Brodsky

#19. Stepping aside from the culture of opinion, delving deeper into open-minded analysis, critics might fulfill their most important function: locating major works that are not always visible in mainstream networks.

Stephen J. Burn

#20. Artists forget than the first purpose of a comic character is to convey emotion. Everything else, like realism, or other kinds of virtuosity, is an optional extra. If you sacrifice expression for the sake of other concerns, you're putting the cart before the horse.

Ted Naifeh

#21. You don't have to strive to be right, because you of faith are made right.

Deborah Brodie

#22. I'm taking a lot of my favorite artists, different people, my favorite music and marrying that with what I do as a comic. It's very collaborative, arty, fun and cool.

Margaret Cho

#23. I'm really interested with the way light plays on images and one of the artists that really reawakened my interest in comic books was Frank Miller and his treatment of Daredevil, and then Wolverine and, of course, Batman.

James Marsters

#24. Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.

Harry Harrison

#25. I'm inclined to think we are all ghosts-every one of us. It's not just what we inherit from our mothers and fathers that haunts us. Its all kinds of old defunct theories, all sorts of old defunct beliefs, and things like that.

Henrik Ibsen

#26. We can't change the past. But we will keep repeating it if we continue to live by the beliefs and agreements set in response to past events.

Julie Tallard Johnson

#27. And I realized: souls don't stand alone. What makes a soul a soul is the shared burden and pain, the shared joy: it's the connection between us that carries on.

Christina Meldrum

#28. Having a talent is not enough: one must also have your permission to have it
right, my friends?

Friedrich Nietzsche

#29. Prayer's value is not that it makes challenges go away,
but that it changes my perception and experience within them.
~ Life at First Sight: Finding the Divine in the Details

Phyllis Edgerly Ring

#30. I, like all artists in Western cultures, am a shaman ... come in the guise of a comic ... to heal perception by using ... 'jokes' ...

Bill Hicks