#comics

Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty. ↗

— Frank Miller

#beauty #capturing #comics #drawing #full

I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights. ↗

— Frank Miller

#bunch #came #chandler #comics #crime

I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my own boss for so long that all of a sudden to be facing a roomful of people who were niggling over every little scene... I just thought I'd go back and draw my comics and have a happy life. ↗

— Frank Miller

#been #boss #brat #comics #draw

The comics I read as a kid were all about guys in tights. But here was a guy who wore a fedora. He fought crime like they did in Marvel and DC, but he did it in the real world. I had just turned 12 when I met the Spirit and it was a strange coincidence. At the same time I discovered girls I fell out of love with guys in tights. ↗

— Frank Miller

#coincidence #comics #crime #dc #did

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

#comedians #comics #could #doing #i

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

I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#been #collected #comics #familiar #got

There hasn't been enough change in comics to suit me. I don't know why exactly. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#change #comics #enough #exactly #hasn

Things improved a little bit in the '80s; there was kind of a revival of alternative comics, but then they went downhill in the '90s. ↗

— Harvey Pekar

#bit #comics #downhill #improved #kind