Best 273 quotes in «comic quotes» category

No one is putting comic book writers on the cover of Entertainment Weekly or Vanity Fair. No one cares whether we have cellulite. There are no paparazzi hiding in the bushes of our front yards. Even the wealthiest among us make very little compared to any c-list star. Even the biggest stars in the comics are completely unknown to anyone who doesn't read them.

Novels are a marathon, while comic scripts are a sprint.

Now I have notebooks that are filled up, mostly with Doom Patrol, but also angry letters to myself mixed in with the comic.

Of comic novels that have quaffed the elixir of 'classic': Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm.

Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.

One of the best things that happened for me as a playwright is becoming a comic-book writer.

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.

Only one letter divides the comic from the cosmic.

People always talk about the content, in terms of the politics of it or whatever social issues are in it, and it's like, "Yeah, but I'm also a good comic." You could at least talk about the form of it, and I feel like that's always the thing that's missed.

Rage is caused by a conviction, almost comic in its optimistic origins (however tragic in its effects), that a given frustration has not been written into the contract of life.

People dressed up like me, at the comic-con in San Antonio. It's very rewarding.

People still go to Comic-Con because they love comics.

People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.

People who don't like Comic Sans don't know anything about design.

Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.

Stand-up comics reflect less of a visual humor and more of a commentary.

The comic book industry has turned into the wellspring for all of these movies that are all based on the comic books.

Rashida Jones is simply glorious. Andy Samberg shines in a grounded performance that digs deep, sharply funny and touching, a breath of fresh comic air!

One of the exciting things about producing a comic is seeing the artist stamp his own interpretation on it.

The comic book world is a tough business.

The comic element is the incorrigible element in every human being; the capacity to learn, from experience or instruction, is what is forbidden to all comic creations and to what is comic in you and me.

The most important thing as a comic and a creator is to have a robust standpoint.

The great modern novel of the comic-pathetic illusion of freedom is Confessions of Zeno .

The latest spin on the Marvel comic-book hero delivers the popcorn goods.

The masters of the comic spirit are often our prophets.

The movies have made the comic books much more valuable and more respected.

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.

The only hope we have are our bodies. We're all trapped in them and we all hate them, and it's this reason why we're comic and not tragic.

The other thing that I started doing for myself was, I went through my diary of ideas that I keep and made sure that the translation of the comic to the movie was good.

The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.

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.

There aren't any concrete steps to becoming a comic.

There's just something that feels nice about holding a comic book!

There are too many good comic book writers out there. I'd rather remain a fanboy.

There is a visual narrative that is implicitly understandable even when you don't understand the words and in a good comic, and they are hard to find, but good comics have parallel intertwined narratives.

There is no decision to be more or less comic. I don't feel more or less humorous in my day-to-day. These things are accidental.

There's nothing grimmer than the tragedy that wears a comic mask.

The thing I thought about doing it was it's Comic Relief and you've got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can't sing.

There's one theory that the funnier a comic is in his act, the more mind-numbingly boring he'll be when he's not holding a microphone.

There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something.

There was always something immensely comic to her in the thought of living elsewhere than New York. She could not regard as serious proposals that she share a western residence.

The scientists at CERN were actually surprised that people commented on this. Reportedly Fabiola Gianotti, the coordinator of the CERN program to find the Higgs Boson, was asked why she had selected Comic Sans. She simply said, "Because I like it.

The whole world makes comic book movies now.

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

Verbing weirds language.

We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.

When a comic becomes enamored with his own views and foists them off on the public in a polemic way, he loses not only his sense of humor but his value as a humorist.

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

We never respect those who amuse us, however we may smile at their comic powers

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life.