A Comic Quotes

I did end up becoming a drawer, a sketcher and a painter because of comic books, but I didn't read them. Not at all.

My whole comic persona is that of a guy who explores the id: I romanticize gluttony, I romanticize laziness, and people identify with that.

No true fan wants to go to Comic-Con and get assaulted with a marketing blitz about just any old show.

Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn't interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don't think in terms of comic dialogue.

I was always being called upon to be an honorary boy alongside my brothers. I don't think I'd be a comic now if it hadn't been for that.

You must show how gruesome that death is because if you don't, then you turn into some kind of comic book and pain, then death, doesn't have a consequence, and pain doesn't have a consequence.

I think to put death on screen where it isn't that turns it into comic book time and there I think by desensitizing an audience, you really do open the possibility that someone is going to kill.

I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd.

I watched so many comic book movies where the actors weren't as built as the characters in the book. It made me mad because they didn't look right.

Any comic like myself owes everything he has to Lenny Bruce. He was the originator. The godfather of uncensored American stand-up is clearly Lenny Bruce.

I was never a kind of superhero fan much growing up, I'm not a kind of comic book kid.

Life is tragic but it's equally comic.

If you're reading a comic strip, you can read it at any speed you want. But with film and music, the audience has to take it the way the composer gives it.

Armando Iannucci is one of my heroes. As I was growing up, he was probably the most influential comic voice that I had.

When the whole world turns clown, and paints itself red with its own hearts blood instead of vermilion, it is something else than comic.

Woody is the guy who made me want to be a comic. I was in heaven and couldn't stop smiling because he was my idle and 29 years after seeing Take the Money and Run, I was working for him.

I read comic books and stuff but I didn't know a lot about it.

I can do web, comic books, macrame, art.

The comic world has its own limitations, as everything does. I adore it, I respect it, but it's not going to take over all of me.

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.

I'm a total nerd. I love comic books and video games and most of all zombies!

Comics are carried by characters. If a character is well-created, the comic becomes a hit.

I'm a comic geek, I love playing video games and I love reading comics.

The reader is not the customer. The retailer is the customer. So I try to have as much interaction with the retailers as possible because those are my customers.

One of the things I would love to do is Axe Cop, which is a comic book. I would like to be involved in Axe Cop someday. I would also love to be in a Western.

I think when comic book fans hear parallel dimensions or multiple dimensions they think of Earth 616 and Earth 617 and Earth 618. That's all possible.

Just looking at me, I am a Black man. Born and bred, through and through. But I am also a lot of things. I am a father. I am a husband. I am a Christian. I am a comic book geek and I'm a creator.

I have been a fan of comic books since childhood.

Self-publishing is still my basic recommendation to anyone wanting to do comics. Do it. Do it until you get good. Do it after you get good. It's good for your spirit as a creator.

I'm actually a little comic nerd myself.

My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu.

If I won the lottery tomorrow - which would be a real trick, since I haven't entered - and was independently wealthy for the rest of my life, I'd write comic books, because it's what I like doing.

I think James Bond is a spy. He's not superhuman. Calling him a superhero is like calling James Bond movies "comic-book movies."

I had great affection for Dana Carvey, and I think we all thought, "Dana's the guy. There's the comic genius."

I started as a standup comic and an actor.

Hollywood wanted a certain type of comic - that Def Jam comedy style of comic that was very loud, very brash, very much from the ghetto, had that sensibility.

At a certain point people want to see other movies besides comic book movies so you have to be really careful what you're going to pick, and how many are going to be released within a year.

I think that Comic-Con is just a wonderful forum. It's just the perfect place for our show and the fans have embraced us so wonderfully. I would be shocked, if we weren't back every year.

The curse of comic book adaptations, when I was younger, was that the director or producer would go, "Don't worry about it, it's just a comic book."

Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.

As psychotic as it gets outside, the comic can be more psychotic.

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not.

I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not. So it's hard for me to come up with things, because I don't write stuff, I don't write my act down.

If you've got comic book fans and soap fans and country fans, I think you've hit the whole world. What else is there?

When you're young as a comic, you don't have a lot of leverage.

I just wanted to be a good comic and had no sense of show business, but at some point you want the opportunity to write a show about your life.

Something you can do in a comic that you can't do in a film is that you can have thought bubbles.

I find it hard to get enthusiastic about hotels because, as a touring comic, I spend a lot of time in them.

Even in the tragedies, [William] Shakespeare always put in parts for the comic actors because his audience was mixed. He puts in people who talk like aristocrats. He puts in idiots and fools.

I get up around 7 a.m. That's very early for a stand-up comic. Then I'll have breakfast with my husband, the artist Al Ridenour, take my three dogs for a walk and commence with my work.