Best 193 quotes in «comics quotes» category

We all go through our entire lives not knowing. Wondering. Trying. Untile we sleep.

We don't seek anyone out. We just wait and hope that people who want the same things come along.

Well... Emmett is real, and I’ve just broken up with Cadence.

What I’ve noticed in a lot of other cartoonists is a sullen resentfulness about their lack of attention and tiny checking accounts. I vowed back in the days when I had no money that I would not allow that kind of bitterness to overtake me. . . . Cartooning, in general, is a very solitary occupation, and it breeds all sorts of self-punishing thinking

What doesn’t KILL me makes me stronger… Except for the extinction of COFFEE… that might kill me.

Well, I've always wanted to call my son Barr." "Like a tavern? Like a soap?" "My father's name is Barr." "Oh. And I love it!

What makes it worth it though, is I love drawing. I LOVE IT. I love making comics. I love starting a new page and buying new paper, ink and brushes. I love telling stories! I love the people I work with, I love the people I meet. I love thinking about the syntax and language of comics. I love esoteric discussions about the comic book industry. I love the opportunities I’ve had in life because of comics. The second I stop loving it I will find something else to do. Comics are hard work. Comics are relentless. Comics will break your heart. Comics are monetarily unsatisfying. Comics don’t offer much in terms of fortune and glory, but comics will give you complete freedom to tell the stories you want to tell, in ways unlike any other medium. Comics will pick you up after it knocks you down. Comics will dust you off and tell you it loves you. And you will look into it’s eyes and know it’s true, that you love comics back.

When someone finally breathes your greatest fear out loud, giving it sharp corners that you can feel in your mouth...Well, it's hard to know what to say after that.

When in doubt, give a character big, blown-up eyes and puffy lips.

When I was a kid, I would always say I would grow up and make comics. I was right about one of those things.

You can't foresee all the consequences of your actions - But that's no excuse to do nothing.

...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.

WINE!Because these problems aren’t going to forget THEMSELVES!

When the worst that can happen already has, there's not much left to be afraid of anymore,right?

When you break something, you´re not just breaking the thing, you´re like hurting everyone who made it was.

When you're running a bureaucracy the best way to safeguard your job is to make sure you're the only one who knows how the whole thing works. -Lord Julius

Will Cato's alien buddies come en masse and invade Earth? He's not sure but he'll try to keep humanity in the loop.

You can't take a crash course in comedy, there is no crash course in comedy.

You claim to like the mayhem, the chaos of it all, but it’s a cover. The truth is that you’d rather burn the world than face it.

You know that you have officially HIT at total midlife crisis when you get acne on your wrinkles.

You fear that power will corrupt you, don't you? That it might turn you into -- me?

Your adult life was nothing more than an exercise in forgetting your childhood. Always angry because you didn't get the approval all children need.

You never know if you can fly unless you take the risk of falling.

Your emotions are your own business.

¿Acaso hay alguien en el mundo que no sueñe, que no contenga en su interior mundos no imaginados?

Abstract art is a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

A comic book in mint condition is an offense against the multiverse. I only collect damaged comics with torn covers and missing pages.

A father's love can be a terrible thing

And now, until we meet again, may the blessings of Asgard be showered upon you!

A gun is a coward's weapon. A liar's weapon.We kill.. too often.. because we've made it easy.. too easy.. sparing ourselves the mess.. and the work..

A lot of people who came into my family's life looking like heroes ended up acting more like villains.

And now the power of Christ is gonna compel you...to choke on my motherfucking dick.

And what's God if not a puppeteer...one who makes us dance...one who craves and demands attention?

As 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.

Ask any writer or filmmaker or painter just how much of a given project truly represents what he/she envisioned it to be. You'll hear twenty percent...ten...five...few will claim more than thirty. The master of one's medium is the degree to which that percentage can be increased, the degree to which the artist's ideas survive the journey -- or, for some artists, the degree to which the inevitable detours are made useful by the artist.

As the Dark Lord spoke when he saw the Archangel Michael descending upon him: We are in some serious shit.

Asking me to do ANYTHING before I’ve had my first cup of coffee should be an episode on 1000 Ways to DIE.

At one point in the story, following a brazen daytime bank robbery, Electro is shown escaping from the authorities by climbing up the side of a building, as easily as Spider-Man . . . we see one observer exclaim, "Look!! That strangely-garbed man is racing up the side of the building!" A second man on the street picks up the narrative: "He's holding on to the iron beams in the building by means of electric rays—using them like a magnet!! Incredible!" There are three feelings inspired by this scene. The first is wonder as to why people rarely use the phrase "strangely-garbed" anymore. The second is nostalgia for the bygone era when pedestrians would routinely narrate events occurring in front of them, providing exposition for any casual bystander. And the third is pleasure at the realization that Electro's climbing this building is actually a physically plausible use of his powers.

Azarath, Metrion, Zinthos!

Because zombies can’t go out into the sun, most of them tend to be afraid of anything that can go into the sun and live to tell the tale.

Because 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.

But some words to men and women, boys and girls alike: The quality of the work must merit the readers' time and money. Do it for yourself, but make yourself a member of your own audience. There is no other way to evaluate your own progress.

But maybe, that's the point. That there are no guarentees. There are no happy endings. But you show up anyway. You don't give up. You NEVER give up. Maybe that's what it takes to be a HERO. -Billy Kaplan

Bentley is a good bee with a shaky sense of direction and an appetite for mayhem. Just don't call him a drone. He hates that.

Change. Change. Change. Change … change. Change. Chaaange. When you say words a lot they don't mean anything. Or maybe they don't mean anything anyway, and we just think they do.

CHORONZON "I am anti-life, the beast of judgement. I am the dark at the end of everything. The end of universes, Gods, worlds... of everything. And what will you be then, Dreamlord?" MORPHEUS "I am hope.

COFFEE! Because this body is NOT going to wake itself up!

Cloak, does God hate me?" I said. "It depends which god you mean. I've met several." "The Jewish One." "Yes.

Comics are a sub-set of pictorial narrative; therefore, all comics are pictorial narratives, but not all pictorial narratives are comics.

Comics are drawings, not photographs, and as such they present a subjective view of reality.