Top 94 Comic Strip Sayings: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Comic Strip

#1. 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

#2. Comic strip is almost like music on a page that you perform in your mind. It's not just pictures. There's a particular rhythm and structure to it that is unlike anything else. It literally is like music. You hear it in your mind as you read it.

Chris Ware

#3. In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.

Bill Watterson

#4. The cultural work done in the past by gods and epic sagas is now done by laundry-detergent commercials and comic-strip character

Roland Barthes

#5. A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to me, I don't know what they think.

Stephan Pastis

#6. The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life ... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.

Bill Watterson

#7. She liked the way the words sounded. She imagined them floating above her in a comic-strip bubble

Kate DiCamillo

#8. For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.

Craig McCracken

#9. Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

Alison Bechdel

#10. Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.

Paul Scofield

#11. You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.

Stephan Pastis

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

Don Herold

#13. A comic strip has a rhythm and a pattern, and you got to get in and out quick. So you set up a joke, tell the joke, and done.

Stephan Pastis

#14. A comic strip that your parents read when they were young is a curious thing: it's an heirloom, and it's also intimate. You peer through windows and look at the things that made your elders laugh, and then you wonder whether the laugh really belongs to you.

Elizabeth McCracken

#15. Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.

Cathy Guisewite

#16. Bill Watterson argued with his medium even as he eclipsed it. He was all too aware that no artistic expression better exemplifies our disposable consumer culture than the daily newspaper comic strip: today's masterpiece is tomorrow's birdcage lining.

Anthony Marra

#17. 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

#18. I answered an ad, for a campus cartoonist at the university I was in, my freshman year. I was like, Oh, I can draw, and I'm sort of a funny guy. I should try this. Then they paid me to do a comic strip for the paper.

Dan Povenmire

#19. Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time.

Norman Mailer

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn't fully appreciate. But I'm now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies.

Ben Affleck

#23. What is a body that casts no shadow? Nothing, a formlessness, two-dimensional, a comic-strip character. If I deny my own profound relationship with evil I deny my own reality. I cannot do, or make; I can only undo, unmake.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#24. Moominpappa: "Tell us all that's happening out in the world!"
Snufkin: "Fuss and misery."
- from "Moomin and Family Life" comic strip

Tove Jansson

#25. Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.

Bill Griffith

#26. It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was. My ambition from earliest memory was to produce a daily comic strip.

Charles M. Schulz

#27. I had been drawing my weekly comic strip, 'Life in Hell,' for about five years when I got a call from Jim Brooks, who was developing 'The Tracey Ullman Show' for the brand-new Fox network. He wanted me to come in and pitch an idea for doing little cartoons on that show.

Matt Groening

#28. Anyone dumb enough to get his political information from a comic strip deserves what he gets at the polls.

Garry Trudeau

#29. The comic strip is what I looked at, and it's another reason I did it. The comic strip, where animals would comment on human behaviour, interested me.

Garry Shandling

#30. To live in society today is like living in one enormous comic-strip.

Jean-Luc Godard

#31. Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

Ralph Fiennes

#32. If you're going to draw a comic strip every day, you're going to have to draw on every experience in your life.

Charles M. Schulz

#33. Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield's comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield.

Jim Davis

#34. If you want to see a comic strip, you should see me in the shower.

Groucho Marx

#35. I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That's what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life.

Matt Groening

#36. You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.

Mort Walker

#37. In Brazil we have a comic strip in the newspaper. That one also attracts a different kind of followers.

Gabriel Ba

#38. One might almost say that to live in society today is something like living inside an enormous comic strip.

Jean-Luc Godard

#39. I've always just loved drawing and loved cartoons. Growing up, I loved Disney films, I loved The Simpsons, and I was a big fan of the comic strip Calvin & Hobbes and the way that they would have weird fantasy and then down-to-earth funny character comedy.

Alex Hirsch

#40. I've always felt that the comic strip medium stands equally beside all the other story telling mediums: novels, movies, stage plays, opera, you know, you name it.

Dave Gibbons

#41. The key to any good comic strip or television sitcom is to reset the board at the end of the episode because people like familiarity.

Jeff Kinney

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

John Updike

#43. Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now.

Alison Bechdel

#44. In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in.

Ben Katchor

#45. 'Blade Runner' was a comic strip. It was a comic strip! It was a very dark comic strip. Comic metaphorically.

Ridley Scott

#46. We don't lose our loved ones when they die. We gain guardian angels. - Tanya Masse aka Comic Strip Mama

Tanya Masse

#47. It seems so absurd to get really mad with a cartoonist over a comic strip. It's sort of like getting in a fight with a circus clown outside your house. It's not going to end well.

Stephan Pastis

#48. Charles Schultz is a really interesting case. He wrote that comic strip and drew it himself from beginning to end, and it's a work of genius. It's very simply drawn, but it has some really deep emotions that you don't expect in a silly-looking comic strip.

Matt Groening

#49. Have you ever felt like you were caught in a maze in which nothing made sense? In which you saw Superman and the Green Goblin in the same comic strip when they really belonged in two different stories?

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

#50. To get syndicated as a comic strip artist is as likely as winning the lottery.

Stephan Pastis

#51. For a long time, I was under the impression that 'Terry and the Pirates' was the best comic strip in the United States.

John Updike

#52. Comic-strip stuff isn't really my cup of tea, really.

Guy Pearce

#53. Having a syndicated comic strip is a great platform for ripping on expressions you hate.

Stephan Pastis

#54. I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip.

Bill Watterson

#55. One of the things you have to be able to do, as a comic strip artist, is to draw things repeatedly from a variety of angles, so you need references, and you find the best picture you can.

Dave Gibbons

#56. We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States.

Majel Barrett

#57. Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I'm in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour.

Matt Groening

#58. I wasn't intending to create a comic strip to begin with. So I think I wasn't aware that when the strip started, there had never been a woman's voice quite like this in the newspaper.

Cathy Guisewite

#59. 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

#60. I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married in real life. So both are shocks to me.

Cathy Guisewite

#61. There's only one thing to do in crisis like this - SLEEP ON IT!

Garfield, the cat.

Jim Davis

#62. People who have NO ambition to make a difference in this life should not interrupt the people who DO.

Tanya Masse

#63. If you can't handle my CRAZY ... You don't deserve my AWESOME!

Tanya Masse

#64. It's gratifying to hear that from people who care about comic art. I never know what to make of it when someone writes to say, "Calvin and Hobbes is the best strip in the paper. I like it even more than Nancy."

Bill Watterson

#65. If there is ONE THING that you do today, let it be this ...
Don't take life WAY too seriously.

Tanya Masse

#66. The HAPPIEST people don't have the BEST of everything ... They just drink WINE.

Tanya Masse

#67. A wise man once said NOTHING ... He just let her vent, nodded his head and live happily ever after!

Tanya Masse

#68. COFFEE! Because this body is NOT going to wake itself up!

Tanya Masse

#69. Life isn't always easy. I struggle day to day. But I choose to live life to the fullest and keep reminding myself that I am stronger than ANYTHING that stands in my way.

Tanya Masse

#70. You should base everything on what you see with your own eyes, hear with your own ears and feel with your own heart. Period. Always believe what you KNOW about a person, not what you HEAR.

Tanya Masse

#71. You know you've officially hit a midlife crisis when you finally start feeling like you have your life together and your body starts falling apart!

Tanya Masse

#72. MOMB - noun - One who can deal with all of the INSANITY of being a MOM ... Because she's the BOMB!

Tanya Masse

#73. What doesn't KILL me makes me stronger ... Except for the extinction of COFFEE ... that might kill me.

Tanya Masse

#74. I'd rather be surround by people who make mistakes and have no problem admitting to them and learning from them than be surrounded by people who think they make none.

Tanya Masse

#75. I'm pretty sure that my Restless Leg Syndrome is simply caused my body just fighting the urge to RUN AWAY!

Tanya Masse

#76. MIDLIFE is that pivotal moment when you can FINALLY say that you basically have all your shit together and then your body starts falling apart!

Tanya Masse

#77. You have two choices ... You can make the BEST of IT or you can let IT get the BEST of you!

Tanya Masse

#78. After Katrina, I decided it's better to have a President who's competent rather than one who's beer-worthy.

Doonsebury

G.B. Trudeau

#79. I need COFFEE to help me change the things I can ... and WINE to help me accept the things I can't!

Tanya Masse

#80. Even AWESOME MOMS use the F-BOMB!

Tanya Masse

#81. MOM - noun - One who sacrifices her body, sleep, social life, spending money, eating hot meals, peeing alone, patience, memory, energy and sanity for LOVE!

Tanya Masse

#82. They are not grey roots! This is my new fifty shades of grey OMBRE hairstyle!

Tanya Masse

#83. Sometimes LIFE is rough and tough. That's still NO excuse for you to be.

Tanya Masse

#84. Asking me to do ANYTHING before I've had my first cup of coffee should be an episode on 1000 Ways to DIE.

Tanya Masse

#85. Don't compare yourself to other MOMS ... We are all just winging it, just some hide it better than others.

Tanya Masse

#86. I don't need a personal trainer ... I need someone to stalk me and threaten to kick my ass when I eat and drink stuff I'm not supposed to!

Tanya Masse

#87. You can't take anything in life WAY too seriously ... Even the serious stuff!

Tanya Masse

#88. Motherhood is a constant battle of wanting to go to bed early so you can catch up on sleep and wanting to stay awake so you can enjoy some peace and sanity!

Tanya Masse

#89. MOMBIE - noun - Suffers from forgetfulness, fatigue, exhaustion, moodiness, sleeplessness, confusion and moments of insanity!
Has difficulty eating or drinking anything while it's still hot and peeing alone.

Tanya Masse