Gillian Flynn Quotes

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 am thrilled to get the chance to write comics - and to tell Forgotten Realms tales, to boot!

I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I've written a graphic novel.

'Daredevil: Season One' is kind of in-between. On the one hand, sure, it's a graphic novel. But on the other, it's beholden to existing continuity, and we're still telling the story in issue-length chapters. So it's not that different to writing a miniseries, and I've done plenty of those.

I want to work on the 'True Blood' comic for as long as they'll let me.

I tend to like writing long stories in comics. I worked on 'Flash,' 'Teen Titans' and 'JSA' for years. I always like diving into characters.

And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client.

I grew up reading a lot of superhero comics, so it's really fun to take a shot at one myself and see what happens.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Ever since I'm done with Zim everyone thinks that I'm going to go back to comics. I've been flooded with emails asking me if I'm working on the new Johnny over and over again.

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

My father spent his entire early career as an illustrator for comic books: EC Comics like 'Tales from the Crypt' and 'Creepshow,' then moving on to such magazines as 'Mad' and 'Weird Science.'

I was wrapping up my stint on 'Daredevil' co-writing with Andy Diggle during the Shadowland story, when Marvel asked if I was interested in doing something else with DD but a bit different. When they explained the purpose of the 'Season One' books, I was intrigued - I'm a big advocate of books for people new to the medium - and said yes.

I have a terrific editor in Molly Mahan - she's the best - and Red Sonja has become up there with Black Canary as my favorite character to write, ever.

It's very strange for me to do a comic book for my first movie. But I used to collect - and I love - comic books.

I love writing novels, but there is something deeply invigorating about the comic-book medium.

I'd hate to be writing 'Adventure Time' comics and not be excited about it.

I love writing comics too much.

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.

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.