Tim Fish Quotes

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

I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason and one reason only: I love comics. I love the form, the structure, the storytelling process, I love everything about it.

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'm never one to care too much if my work becomes adapted; I make comic books.

To be honest, writing comics is a dream come true - the form is unparalleled and is home to some of the most original and innovative storytelling around.

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

You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically.

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

Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.

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

My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.

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

And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say.

I was able to accomplish pretty much everything I set out to do with my run on Superman, and I'm really proud of how it turned out. I hope that readers enjoyed it, too!

Comics have always been storyboards.

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.'

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.

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

I've always been apprehensive about doing comic books, period.

'The Great Comic Book Artists' is about three score of the best practitioners of graphic story art.

I'm not the best person to analyze any kind of evolution in my work, but I do feel like it's been an ongoing struggle to basically teach myself how to tell the kinds of stories that interest me in comics form.

My view is that comic books are meant to be long-form stories. They're meant to be novels.

The most impactful comics that I've read are the ones where the artists swung for the bleachers and tried to immerse you in their world.

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

Being able to work in comics at all - I know I came into it from a different medium, but I'd like to stay here. It's not like a weird touristy thing for me.