#comics

Comics are really my life blood in a lot of respects. ↗

— Bill Sienkiewicz

#comics #life #lot #my life #really

But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression. ↗

— Bill Sienkiewicz

#comics #expression #personal #personal expression #smaller

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage. ↗

— Carol Leifer

#always #comics #doing #few #few women

All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#career #comics #form #i #reinvent

With comics you can put interesting and solid information in a format that's pretty palatable. ↗

— Joe Sacco

#format #information #interesting #palatable #pretty

Thus, sped by currents of curiosity afloat the swift river of rumor do secrets sail to strange ports. ↗

— Will Eisner

#art

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

#art

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

— Al Capp

#humor #art

Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#comics #creativity #human-activity #instincts #reproduction

Still,[...] in all forms of comics the sequential artist relies upon the tacit cooperation of the reader. This cooperation is based upon the convention of reading and the common cognitive disciplines. Indeed, it is this very voluntary cooperation, so unique to comics, that underlies the contract between artist and audience. ↗

— Will Eisner

#art