Adam Ross Quotes

But again, I put in my time with Marvel and DC so there was that period of my life of trying to learn how to draw and tell stories in a proper fashion.

Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.

Much like every artist or every creator, I got into comics as a kid, and the most important thing was the 'bang zoom' of it. As many explosions as possible.

Growing up, I enjoyed drawing, but it was always in the service of an idea. I drew all the time, and I enjoyed making.

I've always been an enormous fan of comic books and anything that captures the real in a surreal environment.

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

I'm a huge comic book fan - me and the kids.

I don't think it's a coincidence that comic books appeal so strongly to children. Not that it negates any of their power for adults, but there is something about comics that makes them a perfect storytelling system for children.

I actually don't read comic books. I did when I was a kid - I used to read a lot of 'X-Men' comic books. I read a couple 'Scott Pilgrim' this past year, and those are really good, but I don't read in general, unfortunately.

I have been an Avengers fan since the middle 1960s. I grew up with them, and I've imagined a hundred different versions of an Avengers movie. I think I even have a script I wrote back in eighth grade, 'Avengers vs. the Mole Man.' Truly dreadful, but a work of love.

I have been drawing and creating visual works my entire life, as long as I can remember.

My first influences were superhero artists.

I still love comic books. When you have a kid, that's an excuse to keep reading all the comic books.

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.

I don't see one as bring better or more literate than the other and there's a real buzz to not only writing about a character I love like Superman, but also writing something that kids can enjoy.

I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction.

Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story.

Everyone can draw when they're five. Most of us lose the ability.

Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form.

I've been drawing my whole life. My mom says my sister and I were drawing by age 1. Animation seems a real, natural extension of drawing as a way of telling a story visually.

I've always loved comic books, which is why I've done films like 'Hulk' and 'The Punishers.'

The first comic book I ever bought, I was in third grade. It was 'Avengers,' I think, #240. I grew up in Kansas City. And I walked into a 7-11. I had seen, like, 'The Hulk' TV series. I knew about comic book heroes. I knew about it, but I hadn't actually had a physical comic in my hands until that time. And it was a big deal for me.

If you look at Stan Lee and the Marvel comics, yes, there's a lot of awesome, serious and dramatic action that takes place.

Everything I've done is an old Marvel comic in its' own way.