Top 100 Quotes About Comic Books
#1. There's a famous tension between Green Lantern and Green Arrow in the comic books. Those guys have always been friends. They started off as not on the same page, and then they quickly became best friends.
Geoff Johns
#2. I love comic books. I was weaned on them, so it's not like it's a stretch for me, but I have other interests, as well.
David S.Goyer
#3. I kept telling my mom that reading comic books would pay off.
Joss Whedon
#4. Ultimately, there's always been a link between comic books and video games, and comic books and movies, and then basically all three steadily becoming this sort of transmedia.
Troy Duffy
#5. Japan is the first nation in the world to accord 'comic books'
originally a 'humorous' form of entertainment mainly for young people
nearly the same social status as novels and films.
Frederik L. Schodt
#6. A lot of the ways that I like to approach comic books, or anything like that, is not just the book itself, but the fans of it, the readers, the world that exists around it as a cultural object.
Kate Beaton
#7. Growing up I never got into comic books at all. I didn't have any inspiration for it.
Scarlett Johansson
#8. When I was in school I read a lot of comic books and pretend I was in them and kids would tease me and call me names. But now I do the same things and people say that I'm artistic and cool and I'm doing the exact same thing I did in high school.
Freddie Prinze Jr.
#9. I used to collect comic books. I had a substantial collection. I collect records also, but those have gone the way of the world.
Robin Zander
#10. Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it's hard work. You get tired reading comic books, but you never get tired looking at pictures or reading words.
Peter Schjeldahl
#11. There are great comic books, these great geniuses that manage to tell you a story in one frame, and that became the thing that opened my eyes.
Pierre Coffin
#12. Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#13. I want to read a lot of comic books. I want to watch movies. I want to rest.
Rain
#14. My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.
Michael Shanks
#15. Comic books to me are fairy tales for grown-ups.
Stan Lee
#17. When I was coming up, I kept a ton of comic books, almost 300 comic books. Back in the day, they didn't used to cost that much, so I used to keep 'em, collect 'em, trade 'em.
Michael Clarke Duncan
#18. We never thought we were writing for posterity, because at the time everyone assumed that all the great standards had already been written by Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Rodgers and Hammerstein ... The songs we were writing were supposed to be temporary things, of the period, like comic books.
Mike Stoller
#20. When I first heard of it, I thought it was a horror film. 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' is such a strange name. I wasn't into the comic books at all.
Judith Hoag
#21. When I was a child I was a dreamer. I read comic books, and I was the hero of the comic book. I saw movies, and I was the hero in the movie. So every dream I have ever dreamed has come true a thousand times.
Elvis Presley
#22. I love comic books, comic book characters and superheroes.
Jon Huertas
#24. I grew up reading comic books, pulp books, mystery and science fiction and fantasy. I'm a geek; I make no pretensions otherwise. It's the stuff that I love writing about. I like creating worlds.
David S.Goyer
#25. I love comic books and always did as a kid.
Rick Moody
#26. Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.
Shawn Ashmore
#27. I'm a huge comic book collector. When I was a kid, I had both Marvel and DC. I was my own librarian. I made card files. I had origin stories of all the characters, and cross-referenced when they appeared in other comic books. I was full on.
James Mangold
#28. I still love comic books. When you have a kid, that's an excuse to keep reading all the comic books.
Jimmy Kimmel
#29. I've conducted an experiment on my kids. Instead of denying them access to media, I've encouraged it. They read comic books, play Nintendo and watch way too much TV.
Matt Groening
#30. I hope I won't become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don't really know comic books all that well.
Steven Moffat
#31. I reject the concept that comic books in movies are a genre. I have been fighting that for many years, with the powers-that-be in Hollywood.
Michael Uslan
#32. I'm the biggest geek of all. Adventure, fantasy, comic books - I can't get enough.
Nathan Fillion
#33. I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
#34. I guess people might be surprised to know I read comic books. I'm a Marvel girl, as opposed to DC.
Chelsea Cain
#35. Art, he said, isn't your little paintings and comic books. Art is the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs.
Joey Comeau
#36. In the world of comic books, "troublemaker" means someone who has some sense of dignity.
Frank Miller
#37. It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#38. The thing about 'Batman Begins' is that he's a character that people thought they knew a lot about, and yet you're able to identify the spirit in his life where even in the comic books it's not explored that much.
David S.Goyer
#39. There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic books. But the true cognoscenti know graphic novels are - at their best - an amazing blend of art literature and the theater of the mind.
John Ridley
#40. Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can't do, and vice versa.
Grant Morrison
#41. I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures ... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.
Alejandro Jodorowsky
#42. I'm constantly trying to mine the DNA of John Constantine and stay true to that character in the comic books.
Matt Ryan
#43. I love cartoons, I love comic books and graphic novels. 'Batman: The Animated Series' was a huge influence on me when I was younger.
Kari Wahlgren
#44. I think the thinking is, in the comic books, I should pack as much onto a page as possible, because, you know, it's kind of the cheaper format, and you want to give readers as much as you can for their dollar.
Chester Brown
#45. What kind of girl reads Wealth of Nations for fun?"
She closed the book and looked at the front jacket, then at him. "It's a shame really. I had nothing else to read. I left all my Barbie comic books at home.
Jill Barnett
#46. Superman has evolved continually in the comic books over the course of 75 years. He couldn't even fly for years in the original comic books. Kryptonite wasn't added until the '60s. All sorts of things like this. If a character is going to remain vital, he does have to change with the times.
David S.Goyer
#47. Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.
Mickey Spillane
#48. I love comic books. I just do.
Megan Fox
#49. I grew up in the GOP sandbox. My dad took me, age 7, to meet Herbert Hoover, in his apartment at the Waldorf Towers. He gave me a silver dollar. Being a young Republican, I spent it on comic books.
Christopher Buckley
#50. Would you rather see a super soldier battling Nazis or something more serious? Or lesbians down a coal mine? Generally, the films are engaging in the same way as the comics are. It's no coincidence that the biggest movies are genre-related, whether it's Lord of the Rings or comic books.
Mark Millar
#51. To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.
Alan Moore
#52. Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books.
Bill Watterson
#53. Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess.
Louis Dudek
#54. A lot of people who saw 'The Avengers' didn't read comic books, don't like comic book movies, and enjoyed it. That was huge for me.
Joss Whedon
#55. I was just a guy who did adult or alternative comic books. And then suddenly to be, like, a New Yorker cover artist was a different thing.
Adrian Tomine
#56. As a child I read all kinds of stuff, whether it was 'Asterix and Obelix' and 'Tin Tin' comic books, or 'Lord of the Rings,' or Frank Herbert's sci-fi. Or 'The Wind in the Willows.' Or 'Charlotte's Web.'
Mohsin Hamid
#57. I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes.
Jamie Hewlett
#58. I grew up with six brothers, and I'm from Chicago, so princesses and Barbie dolls were not around the house. It was more like sports and comic books, so getting to work for Marvel is like my version of being able to be a princess.
Chloe Bennet
#59. In a sense, comic books are frozen movies. If you look at a comic book, you are generally seeing the storyboard for a film. The great advantage of comic books, over the years, has been that, if they are frozen movies, they are not limited by budget. They are only limited by imagination.
Michael Uslan
#60. It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#61. I have to read comic books all first, because now when you get into graphic novels, they are definitely in deep graphic.
Virginia Madsen
#62. I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.
Harvey Pekar
#63. Kids are no longer interested in reading comic books; they've got television and the electronic games that they can bury themselves in like ostriches. They don't have to pay attention to what's going on in the world around them.
Al Feldstein
#64. I've long said that comic books are the modern equivalent of our Greek myths.
David S.Goyer
#65. No matter how much people want to pretend that they're embarrassed by it, that they don't watch it, everybody knows about it. It's truly, I believe, one of the only art forms that America has actually given to the world, besides jazz and comic books.
CM Punk
#66. I read comic books and stuff but I didn't know a lot about it.
Josh Brolin
#67. Whatever it is that you love to do, be it collect comic books or play the guitar, that you can make a living at it, do it.
Meredith Brooks
#68. Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and draw my own comic books when I was on the old Lost in Space series.
Bill Mumy
#69. Victor claims these kinds of things don't go on in normal households, but I'm pretty sure this entire incident could be blamed on the fact that I have several real-life sleep disorders. This is not too surprising considering I collect neurological disorders like other people collect comic books.
Jenny Lawson
#70. 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
#71. This is the contradiction we have in the media. We love vigilantes: Batman, Tarzan, Green Arrow - the comic books and the TV shows are filled with vigilantes. We love to promote it. Jesus Christ was a vigilante. We admire these people, but we don't want to be associated with them.
Paul Watson
#73. My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.
Walter Mosley
#75. There are different rules for comic books now. You've got prima donna's that are dealing with the direct sales market, so if they say it's going to be late, then that's what you tell the dealers and it's late.
Mike Royer
#76. Human beings need stories, and we're looking for them in all kinds of places; whether it's television, whether it's comic books or movies, radio plays, whatever form, people are hungry for stories.
Paul Auster
#77. Oh, please, if its ass is feathered and waterproof, its a duck. Hello, pictures with little word balloons makes it a comic book. They're dorky comic books for nerdy antisocial, nonbathing people. End of discussion.
P.C. Cast
#78. I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.
Ang Lee
#79. At home, I have lot of pictures from 'The Walking Dead' and some stuff from comic books. At comic conventions, people will give me a lot of autographed stuff, so a lot of those are on my wall.
Chandler Riggs
#80. It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.
Daniel Clowes
#81. Personally, I really enjoy sci-fi. I watch it, I read comic books, and I play video games. I love this kind of world, so to be able to work in it is a dream. I enjoy it. It's all good.
Aaron Ashmore
#82. People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.
Harvey Pekar
#83. We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
Robert M. Hutchins
#84. Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them.
J.M. Coetzee
#85. Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
Baz Luhrmann
#86. When I was a kid, there were these great comic books called 'Tales From The Crypt' and 'The Vault of Horror.' They were gruesome. I discovered them in the barbershop and thought they were fabulous.
R.L. Stine
#87. I think comic books have come an incredibly far way, and I want to make sure we don't take a step back. I certainly don't want my name on a movie that would take it back.
Marc Guggenheim
#88. They [comic books] are not a genre, they are not something to get hot and cold from one year to the next, they're the exact same thing as books and plays: they are a source of great stories and colorful characters.
Michael Uslan
#89. My favorite comic book growing up was 'Thor.' It was one of my three, favorite comic books. Obviously, Marvel is such a huge name, but for me, to book a role in a Marvel movie, and for it to be 'Thor.' When my manager told me I booked 'Thor,' I literally didn't know what to say.
Joseph Gatt
#90. I think the advent of the Internet gave us all a big boost, because by the time the Internet became mainstream and you could get it in your home, a lot of us were used to dealing in fan culture, writing to magazines or anything at the back of comic books.
Kevin Smith
#91. I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
R.L. Stine
#92. In the '50s, a lot of stories were built around radiation and the proliferation of new technology. In the '70s, there were a lot of stories that dealt with the Vietnam War. So comic books have always been a reflection of the times we live in.
Jim Lee
#93. I didn't read comics, growing up. I watched a lot of movies, and those were my comic books. And then, my exposure really increased by becoming affiliated with Spider-Man.
Emma Stone
#94. All I thought about when I wrote my stories was, "I hope that these comic books would sell so I can keep my job and continue to pay the rent." Never in a million years could I have imagined that it would turn into what it has evolved into nowadays. Never.
Stan Lee
#95. Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them up with great passion. That is because human beings need stories.
Paul Auster
#96. Quentin and I were constantly finding something new that we had in common and comic books were one of them. I think we were talking about comic books much earlier in our relationship, before I had the part.
David Carradine
#97. I grew up with comic books and cartoons and action movies. To find myself in the position to do work in these mediums is just an opportunity I couldn't have even asked for. It's just pure luck, really.
Hoon Lee
#98. I used to write in school a lot; I always liked it and used to write on my own, comic books, come up with alternate story lines to the stuff I watched and read, a lot of books and TV, episodes of 'Twilight Zone.' I didn't think about it.
Ryan Coogler
#99. I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.
Candice Patton
#100. I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder.
Gene Luen Yang
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