Joe Sacco Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I read comics because of the art.

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.

The most impactful comics that I've read are the ones where the artists swung for the bleachers and tried to immerse you in their world.

Being able to work in comics at all - I know I came into it from a different medium, but I'd like to stay here. It's not like a weird touristy thing for me.

I looked at comics like a buffet table, where you take a little bit of something and leave the other stuff behind.

I love print comics.

You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically.

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

I'm a severe graphic novels junkie. People ask me about it, and I say I like the graphic novels. Comic books are for kids, and graphic novels are for adults. But you can't really separate the two.

I love comic books. I just do.

I am an avid reader of comics, though I came to them late.

I don't really read magazines that much. I read comic books.

At the age that I was when I stopped reading comics, and with a set of talents that would seem to mark a future comic-book auteur, my son has had only a passing enthusiasm for the medium.

I guess people might be surprised to know I read comic books. I'm a Marvel girl, as opposed to DC.

I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history.

Comics are in my blood. It's my strange addiction, and I love it.

My first influences were superhero artists.

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.

All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.