Adrian Tomine Quotes

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.

Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.

I read comics because of the art.

People underestimate the complexity of comic books.

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.

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

The comics were not only stories to enjoy; for me they were drawings that possessed me.

Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can't do, and vice versa.

There are great comic books, these great geniuses that manage to tell you a story in one frame, and that became the thing that opened my eyes.

I'm not ashamed of comic books. You have some people that are like, 'We're trying to elevate comic books.' Comic books have always told great dramatic stories.

I had never been a comic book person before, really, because I had no access to them. Once I had access, I thought that these are just another avenue for telling stories and delving into the imagination.

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

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

Comics were a place where captivating images lit your imagination and showed you that you can create new kinds of people and worlds.

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

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

I've been trying to make this argument that digital comics and print comics are both art, but there are subtle differences.

I just really respond to comics. I find it a really exciting medium.

I was commissioned in 2003 to create an original show, and began developing 'Upwake.' 'Upwake' tells the story of Zero, a modern-day business man, going to work with his life in a suitcase, stuck between dream and reality and not able to decipher the two. I wanted 'Upwake' to have the same audiovisual qualities as a movie would.

I just like the comic book sensibility. If I can turn them into films and TV series, that's just icing on the cake.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

There are so many versions of Batman that I love so much from different artists that I had to almost stop trying to draw those versions and get past that and just draw the Jeff Lemire version of Batman eventually.

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.

There's a creative freedom to comics, and a fulfillment I get out of panel layouts and storytelling that is hard for me to get anywhere else.

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.