#comics

It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media. ↗

— Bill Mumy

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I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#cartoonist #comics #crumb #decided #going

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

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I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#any #anything #art #art form #comics

The misconception is that standup comics are always on. I don't know any really funny comics that are annoying and constantly trying to be funny all the time. ↗

— Joe Rogan

#annoying #any #comics #constantly #funny

Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal. ↗

— Chris Ware

#any #art #comics #critical #entirely

I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, you don't necessarily pick up on it when you're an adult. ↗

— Victoria Pratt

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Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#alone #being #comics #find #freeing

My interests were in fantasy more than comics growing up. ↗

— Brandon Routh

#fantasy #growing #growing up #interests #more

A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and a lot of them can't even talk. All they can do is tell gags. ↗

— Alexei Sayle

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