A comic book in mint condition is an offense against the multiverse. I only collect damaged comics with torn covers and missing pages.
Stephen Evans
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Bad idea
When you can’t draw chameleons and you can’t draw blenders, it’s a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders.
Pearls Sells Out: A Pearls Before Swine Treasury
Stephan Pastis
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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
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Every schoolboy knows
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.
Robert C. Harvey
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If you want to be a cartoonist
If you want to be a cartoonist, live the life of a cartoonist.
Oliver Gaspirtz
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It’s a page
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.
John Heffernan
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I’m at my happiest
Oh 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
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Liberated and subversive
I 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
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Not all pictorial narratives are comics
Comics are a sub-set of pictorial narrative; therefore, all comics are pictorial narratives, but not all pictorial narratives are comics.
Robert C. Harvey
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Not photographs
Comics are drawings, not photographs, and as such they present a subjective view of reality.
Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga
Frederik L. Schodt
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One funny image
One 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
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Socrates
Socrates should have written comics.
Mark Waid
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The first nation in the world
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.
Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga
Frederik L. Schodt
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The person on the left
In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.
George Carlin
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They’ll kick your ass every time
If 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
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To be what you want to be
It’s always easy to be what you are - What’s hard is to be what you want to be.
Spiderman
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Too dull to imagine
A childhood that wasn’t spent watching cartoons or reading comic strips, no wonder, seems too dull to imagine.
Sanhita Baruah
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Two fundamental communicating devices
Comics 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
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When in doubt
When in doubt, give a character big, blown-up eyes and puffy lips.
Stephan Pastis
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Words and pictures are yin and yang
Words and pictures are yin and yang. Married, they produce a progeny more interesting than either parent.
Dr. Seuss
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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
Scott McCloud
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