Brian Stelfreeze Quotes

I'm just a guy drawing comics. Guys knocking other guys through buildings. Guys flipping tanks over on each other. I'm just trying to be true to what I liked as a kid.

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

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.

The way people love sci-fi is how I love cartoons.

I like superheroes. I like the drama of it, the stirring, larger-than-life aspect.

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

I've always said that what cartoonists do is create friends for readers.

Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.

I grew up loving cartoons, comics, magic, and writing.

I am a lifelong Moebius geek. The European approach is perfect, the art is beautiful, and the storytelling is fantastic.

I think that sense of wonderment, where you walk out expecting the ordinary and are confronted by the extraordinary, is something that has always interested me, whether in TV or comic books.

I became a writer through drawing first and then a comic book obsession - Marvel Comics, in particular. I invented a world of superheroes starting in third grade with my classmate, Wai-Kwan Wong. In a classroom of forty kids, let's just say there was a lot of undirected time. But this was good because I was a dreamy boy.

Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.

I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers.

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.

Anyone should be able to read comics.

A lot of movies are made to make us dream.

I've never really been a genre fan. I never grew up reading comic books or was a horror buff.

My first influences were superhero artists.

As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.

I think probably the first time I wanted to be an artist was when I was about six or seven years old. I used to get British comics and I clearly remember seeing my first American comic: an issue of 'Action Comics', with Superman on the cover with a treasure horde in a cave, and Lois saying something like 'I don't believe Superman is a miser!'

Cartooning is an honorable thing.

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.

Cinema isn't just a good medium for translating graphic novels. It's specifically a good medium for superheroes. On a fundamental, emotional level, superheroes, whether in print or on film, serve the same function for their audience as Golden Age movie stars did for theirs: they create glamour.

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