Quotes and wishes: «Free Comic Book Day»
Quotes and wishes: «Free Comic Book Day»
An offense against the multiverseA comic book in mint condition is an offense against the multiverse. I only collect damaged comics with torn covers and missing pages.
Stephen Evans Quotes and wishes: «Free Comic Book Day»
Bad ideaWhen you can’t draw chameleons and you can’t draw blenders, it’s a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders.
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Stephan Pastis Quotes and wishes: «Free Comic Book Day»
Comics ... are sometimes four-legged…Comics ... are sometimes four-legged and sometimes two-legged and sometimes fly and sometimes don’t ... to employ a metaphor as mixed as the medium itself, defining comics entails cutting a Gordian-knotted enigma wrapped in a mystery ...
Robert C. Harvey Quotes and wishes: «Free Comic Book Day»
Every schoolboy knowsAs every schoolboy knows, comics do not stand alone at microphones in the dark. Indeed, we cannot even read them in the dark. We need light, the more, the better. And we enjoy comics best in solitary, by ourselves, not in crowds; although large numbers of people read comics, they generally do it by themselves, in silence.
Robert C. Harvey Quotes and wishes: «Free Comic Book Day»
If you want to be a cartoonistIf you want to be a cartoonist, live the life of a cartoonist.
Oliver Gaspirtz Quotes and wishes: «Free Comic Book Day»
It’s a pageBecause that’s what a comic is, ultimately: a collection of pages. It’s not a flatpanel or a touchscreen, even though that’s where it might eventually be displayed. It’s a page.
John Heffernan Quotes and wishes: «Free Comic Book Day»
I’m at my happiestOh yes, I’m at my happiest when I have a good idea and I’m drawing it well, and it comes out well and somebody laughs at it.
Charles M. Schulz, Charles M. Schulz: Conversation Quotes and wishes: «Free Comic Book Day»
Liberated and subversiveI don’t remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.
Edward W. Said Quotes and wishes: «Free Comic Book Day»
Not all pictorial narratives are comicsComics are a sub-set of pictorial narrative; therefore, all comics are pictorial narratives, but not all pictorial narratives are comics.
Robert C. Harvey Quotes and wishes: «Free Comic Book Day»
Not photographsComics are drawings, not photographs, and as such they present a subjective view of reality.
Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga
Frederik L. Schodt Quotes and wishes: «Free Comic Book Day»
One funny imageOne funny image can sometimes save an otherwise mediocre strip. At least that’s what I tell myself so I don’t feel quite as crappy when I’ve just wasted four hours drawing and coloring a Sunday strip.
Stephan Pastis Quotes and wishes: «Free Comic Book Day»
The first nation in the worldJapan 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.
Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga
Frederik L. Schodt Quotes and wishes: «Free Comic Book Day»
Quotes and wishes: «Free Comic Book Day»
They’ll kick your ass every timeIf you just write the kinds of stories you think others will want to read, you’ll be competing with cartoonists who are far more enthusiastic for that kind of comic than you are, and they’ll kick your ass every time.
Making Comics: Storytelling Secrets of Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels
Scott McCloud Quotes and wishes: «Free Comic Book Day»
To be what you want to beIt’s always easy to be what you are - What’s hard is to be what you want to be.
Spiderman Quotes and wishes: «Free Comic Book Day»
Too dull to imagineA childhood that wasn’t spent watching cartoons or reading comic strips, no wonder, seems too dull to imagine.
Sanhita Baruah Quotes and wishes: «Free Comic Book Day»
Two fundamental communicating devicesComics deal with two fundamental communicating devices: words and images. Admittedly this is an arbitrary separation. But, since in the modern world of communication they are treated as independent disciplines, it seems valid. Actually, the are derivatives of a single origin and in the skillful employment of words and images lies the expressive potential of the medium.
Will Eisner, Comics and Sequential Art Quotes and wishes: «Free Comic Book Day»
Quotes and wishes: «Free Comic Book Day»
Words and pictures are yin and yangWords and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.
Dr. Seuss Quotes and wishes: «Free Comic Book Day»
You see yourself...when you look at a photo or realistic drawing of a face, you see it as the face of another . But when you enter the world of the cartoon , you see yourself.
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art
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