Jim Steranko Quotes

#1. I've met some real talents that were ... real talents and I've met some real talents that were incredible people.People like Al Williamson, Gray Morrow, to a certain extent Jim Steranko, who is an institution all to himself. What a talent. What a genius talent.

Mike Royer

#2. Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought that comics would be greatly improved if everything was a bit psychedelic like Jim Steranko.

Alan Moore

#3. You two are cracked," Tod snapped.
My smile widened. "Says the undead man in love with the soulless pop star.

Rachel Vincent

#4. My younger sister and younger brother are huge 'Teen Witch' fans.

Robyn Lively

#5. I rejected the idea of 9/11 being exploited pornographically immediately after the tragedy, when no one else breathed a word about it.

Jim Steranko

#6. Write visually or die!

Jim Steranko

#7. I'm no saint, but there are times when I simply cannot sanction freedom from responsibility.

Jim Steranko

#8. At every show, people I've never seen approach me with the same story: how experiencing my work changed their lives and made them artists or writers or law enforcers or attorneys, believe it or not. It's very humbling and gratifying.

Jim Steranko

#9. There is not one piece of artwork I have ever done that lived up to the vision I had for it in my head. That's why I keep on trying. Maybe someday I'll do it. I don't want to be in the past. I want to get to the next thing.

Jim Steranko

#10. Curiosity might have killed some cats,but not this one.
He's too tough.

Blacksad.
Intro by Steranko.

Jim Steranko

#11. Comic book companies are like comic book villains; they keep coming back after they die.

Jim Steranko

#12. Hence one meets in polite society few novelists, or poets, few of all those sublime creatures who speak of the things that are not to be mentioned.

Marcel Proust

#13. The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.

Nick Cave

#14. Rejoice and be glad, you have life, the greatest gift.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. Too many artists and writers have forgotten their roots. I embrace my fans because, in a way, they're family.

Jim Steranko

#16. I regret that he didn't do anything about it, even though he was at least a head taller than me. I wouldn't have minded bleeding at all for one more opportunity to give the kind of Bat Lesson that Finger, Robinson, Sprang and others only dreamed of.

Jim Steranko

#17. Most - and I mean maybe 99% or more - graphic novels are simply fat comicbooks. The term is a bogus, cocked-up concept some marketing whizkid conceived to get comics on the shelves of bookstores.

Jim Steranko

#18. Transforming a line like that makes it into a belly laugh instead of a laugh against us.

Terence Young

#19. We all have an aggressive dedication to the narrative arts - comics, film, electronic gaming, and more. We spend much of our time and effort exploring those forms and have an enormous investment in the arts. We're all part of the same brotherhood as far as I'm concerned.

Jim Steranko

#20. Guy Peellaert was to Europe what Andy Warhol was to America - except Guy had more talent!

Jim Steranko

#21. You have to be careful not to get overexposed.

Mike Love