Antony Johnston Quotes

The comic book world is a tough business.

I'm very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry.

I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.

Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.

Marvel has put out good product. DC has put out good product. Even Image has put out good product, as far as I'm concerned... although it's few and far between. But it's not getting recognized, no matter who's doing it.

I love creator-owned comics. Most of my favorite books these days are creator-owned, from stuff DC publishes, like 'Fables,' to books like 'Saga,' 'Fatale,' 'Hellboy,' and 'Courtney Crumrin.'

Just about everything put out by Top Shelf and Drawn & Quarterly and Fantagraphics is what I keep up with. And once in a while, I'll read the more mainstream comics - I like Grant Morrison's writing and some of Warren Ellis' stuff, although maybe they're more on the fringe of the mainstream.

I tried to get into comics initially after I graduated Clemson in 1994. I spent a year trying to get in, and I quit reading books because not getting in made me sad.

That and the fact that I knew that nobody was going to publish my work at Dark Horse or DC or anywhere.

Comics are printed on paper, which is expensive, making it tough to stay in business.

I like Comixology and I think they have a very captive audience which is good and bad. I hope that getting my books on there expose folks who just read Marvel/DC/Image to try something different.

The first work I ever did in comics was for Archie Comics, and I didn't do that very long because I did other stuff.

I'd been familiar with comics, and I'd collected 'em when I was a kid, but after I got into junior high school, there wasn't much I was interested in.

I love comics. Comics are something I've always wanted to do.

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.

Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.

One of the things that appealed to me most about comics was that you can pick the ones you like and build your own personal pantheon.

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.

I was a Marvel guy. I started reading comics when I was a kid.

I feel sorry for people who only know comic books through movies. I really do.

I was into Alan Moore and Frank Miller. I was a teenager when all those books where coming out for the first time - 'Watchmen,' 'V for Vendetta.' It was a great time to get into comics.

I'm a huge comic book fan, and I've read a lot from all different comic book outlets.

I go to Comic-Con every year, generally with some project of some sort.

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

I'm trying to move a little more toward literary fiction while still retaining a popular feel.