#comics

I think comics in New York are interested in being comics. And there're comics in L.A. who are touring comics, who are certainly more interested in stand-up, but a lot of L.A. stand-ups are really looking to do something else. ↗

— Lewis Black

#certainly #comics #else #i #i think

I was a fan of the 'Dredd' comics when I was a teenager. ↗

— Karl Urban

#fan #i #teenager

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society. ↗

— Jo Brand

#female #male #more #social #society

I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot. ↗

— Dane Cook

#i #laugh #lot #loud #out

Comics were going down for the second time and here, all of a sudden, came this thing and for the next fifteen years, romance comics were about the top sellers in the field; they outsold everything. ↗

— Gil Kane

#came #comics #down #everything #field

I'm only 24 so I like to think I'm still close enough to 17 to still remember what it was like. Besides, I could just fake it and get away with it... it's not like there are any teenagers that still read comics. ↗

— Robert Kirkman

#away #besides #close #comics #could

Well, don't tell Steve Niles but I just don't think horror works in comics. ↗

— Robert Kirkman

#horror #i #just #steve #tell

Comics don't like to see other comics do well. ↗

— Carrot Top

#like #other #see #well

The real power of comics is writing as you draw. ↗

— Chris Ware

#draw #power #real #real power #writing

I wanted to make comics that get at feelings that connect to the deepest moments of our lives, reading Tolstoy, Flaubert, Flannery O'Connor, Herman Melville, William Faulkner, Vladimir Nabokov and Carver to help gain the confidence to figure it out. I knew, however, the most doomed approach would be to simply create stories that felt 'literary.' ↗

— Chris Ware

#carver #comics #confidence #connect #connor