James Marsters Quotes

My first influences were superhero artists.

Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.

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

It blows my mind the way Frank Miller can write.

I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.

No matter how good a story is, if you're at a newsstand and you see a lot of comic books, you don't know how good the story is unless you read it. But you can spot the artwork instantly, and you know whether you like the artwork, whether it grabs you or not.

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.

I'm a cartoonist. I write and draw comic books and graphic novels. I'm also a coder.

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'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.

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.

Cartooning is an honorable thing.

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

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.

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.

There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic books. But the true cognoscenti know graphic novels are - at their best - an amazing blend of art literature and the theater of the mind.

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

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.

The wonderful thing about the cartoon form is it's a combination of words and pictures. You don't have to choose, and the contribution of the two often winds up being greater than the sum of its parts.

But to me what seems to be missing in a lot of portfolios is Cartooning.

The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.

Like everyone else, I love 'Born Again:' that was a seminal work for me. Everything Frank Miller did on 'Daredevil' is like the Bible.

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

I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.