Bill Sienkiewicz Quotes

I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.

I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can be.

Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other practitioners.

I'm sure that no matter what I'm involved in, I'll always be doing comics, at least in some minor capacity.

I never thought I would work in mainstream superhero comics or Valiant or Marvel. I just set out to make the kinds of stories I wanted to make, which at the beginning was small personal stuff like 'Essex County.'

I would definitely, definitely love to do more comic work. I think, creatively, there's something that's differently rewarding about it than the rewards of filmmaking.

I love comics and have since I was a kid. That is what gave me the idea to create my own.

Even though I was trained in play writing and screenwriting, when I sat down to write a comic book for the first time, Alan Moore was first and foremost in my mind.

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.

I've read comics all my life and have wanted to write a comic for as long as I can remember. Alex Barnaby and Sam Hooker seemed like the perfect team to make the move into the graphic medium.

I knew I wanted to do comics, but I wasn't sure what they were about or what I wanted them to be about.

I knew I really wanted to work in comics in 1979.

Writing comics and drawing comics is a really very specific art form. It's a lot easier to get it wrong than it is to get it right.

Comics are actually a lot more difficult to read than I thought they would be. After my second 'Deadpool' comic, I kind of gave up.

Comics writing is for your artist. It's not for the general reader; it's for the artist. So I love writing scripts for artists.

I love writing comics too much.

The whole thing about comics is the reason I think you shoot to be a comics author is because it's a very solitary activity and that you sit down and you're arguing with yourself that's kinda the plan.

I feel like there are comic book artists who are comic book artists, and then there's comic book artists who are cartoonists.

We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement.

I created lots of characters in high school and college, and the first character I created in pro comics was Liana, Green Lantern of M'Elu, for a backup story in 'Green Lantern #162,' my first professional sale.

That's what I really wanted to do when I was 16, be in comics!

Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

I ended up reading comics and just started drawing at a very young age. By high school, I was putting together longer stories. In college, I started doing strips for the newspaper and doing mini-comics. It sort of grew in scope and scale over time.

Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher.

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