Comic Novel Quotes

#1. The first novel I wrote, 'The White House Mess,' was a comic novel. It came out in 1986. It was a parody in the form of a White House memoir.

Christopher Buckley

#2. Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

John Irving

#3. I won't read a new graphic comic novel until the writer has completed the entire series. I got burned a few times when I got turned on to a book, plowed through it only to find out the author was in the middle of writing the next.

Nick Offerman

#4. In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

Dean Koontz

#5. There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.

Zadie Smith

#6. You can make your superhero a psychopath, you can draw gut-splattering violence, and you can call it a "graphic novel," but comic books are still incredibly stupid.

Bill Watterson

#7. Does Batman ever NOT have a plan...?

Mark Waid

#8. 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

#9. Sometimes, if you close your eyes and keep still, you can be invisible. Ostriches know this." - Constantine

Jamie Delano

#10. The language in a comic book or a graphic novel and the cinematographic language are really not the same language. They are false brother and sister. It's not at all the same.

Marjane Satrapi

#11. 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

#12. Show some respect. They were your grandparents. -Batman
Just names and dusty frames on the wall to me. -Damien
I take exception to that. There is not a speck of dust collecting on those portraits. -Alfred

Peter J. Tomasi

#13. Maybe I'd be a storyboard artist. Graphic novel/comic book artist. Backup dancer. Singer. It would be cool to focus on one of these full time. But I like seeing them all intertwine.

Jade Hassoune

#14. I firmly believe that if you can't fool all of the people all of the time you should start breeding them for stupidity. - Weisshaupt

Dave Sim

#15. Growing up devouring horror comics and novels, and being inspired to become a writer because of horror novels, movies, and comic books, I always knew I was going to write a horror novel.

Colson Whitehead

#16. Have you noticed how Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen look nothing alike, and yet they both manage to look exactly like their father, Martin?

Ken O'Neill

#17. The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno .

Italo Svevo

#18. When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.

Joyce Carol Oates

#19. Whenever you do something that's original, not based on a comic book or a novel or an old movie or a franchise, you definitely learn a lot and for I think it was very gratifying to see the people embrace the world.

Alfred Gough

#20. I'm sure this is a diversionary ploy. But that doesn't mean it isn't real.
-Abe Sapien

John Arcudi

#21. Death is complicated."

-Johann Kraus

John Arcudi

#22. The last time I was this confused I was watching a Fassbinder film.

Ken O'Neill

#23. I didn't read comic books, growing up. I was more of a science fiction/fantasy novel guy. I loved reading Edgar Rice Burroughs' 'Tarzan' and that kind of stuff.

Jesse L. Martin

#24. That's the exciting part about capitalism. It's like surfing, you have to catch the wave. - Martin Peter (aka Vermin Gobsmack)

Jamie Delano

#25. My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long, watching bad television or we'd lie in the same bed, and I'd read my comic books while he read his latest spy or mystery novel.

Sherman Alexie

#26. I was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot of my childhood and early adolescence. So when you have an unfulfilled dream like that, when years later you find yourself in a position to make a graphic novel - hell yeah, I'm going to do that.

Anthony Bourdain

#27. Thanks to the comic book publishers. Batman and Captain Marvel were responsible for my learning to read at least a year before I showed up at school. They got me interested in writing. Started my first novel at about eight. The title: 'The Canals of Mars.'

Jack McDevitt

#28. Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect.

Grant Morrison

#29. I see no intrinsic reason why a doubly talented artist might not arise and create a comic-strip novel masterpiece.

John Updike

#30. Sweetie, you don't need to drive me to the brink of insanity ... I'm close enough to walk!

Tanya Masse

#31. They're right. We're not fighting for the people anymore, Falcon... Look at us. We're just fighting.

Mike Millar

#32. One way of understanding a graphic novel is that it's an ambitious comic and one way or another my comics have had ambitions. I have no problem with escapism. When I get my depressions all I want to do is escape reality.

Art Spiegelman

#33. Throughout these pages, my brush weeps in sorrow for what happened in Tiananmen Square.

Not for the first time, a government was turning the guns on its people. Has the world learned nothing from history?

Morgan Chua

#34. What did he say? He is in love? My brain stops, my heart stops, my blood ceases to flow. My appendages go weak and cold, and there is a suspension of all space and time as the universe comes into perfect alignment.

Julie Sarff

#35. Why do Jesus and Mary only appear on Mexican food? Huh? Answer me that? Nobody ever sees the face of God in a California roll.

Ken O'Neill

#36. 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

#37. You start to get nervous when the value of a comic book or graphic novel is relative to the achievements of some other medium.

Adrian Tomine

#38. I havent been doin much comic book writing for the last several years though, as Ive been writing television projects and a novel.

Bill Mumy

#39. Cartoonists create so many cartoons on any given topic that we can follow the life cycle of a comic idea and how it evolves over time more quickly than we can with a form like the novel.

Robert Mankoff