Mika Quotes

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.

Graphic novels are such a visually creative world - it's really interesting what they can do in one sketch. Now I'm hooked.

I love print fiction, but sometimes when I'm reading a good graphic novel or manga, I find myself envying those who work in an illustrated format.

Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.

I'm kind of a graphic novel ambassador.

I've done illustration on the side. But other than that, comics have been my main things.

Cartooning is an honorable thing.

For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.

For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.

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

Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.

Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.

When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.

I would love to do a full-scale graphic novel.

I get asked a lot about writing for games and prose and film, and I will do some, but I can never see myself leaving comics. I love it too much.

I enjoy the art, and I enjoy drawing. I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book.

Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.'

You know, comics were created at the same time as the cinema. And the cinema very quickly became a major art. Cartooning didn't become a major art. There's a reason for that. People don't know how to deal with drawings.

All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.

I think the problem with the term graphic novel is it sounds pompous, it sounds pretentious, whereas on the continent, they call it an album, which to me sounds, it's got more much of a connotation of a kind of a music single and an album collection.

My first influences were superhero artists.

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

I love graphic novels - I love reading them, I enjoyed writing them, I would love to go back and do them again. I hope I'm savvy enough to do them in the right way.