George Perez Quotes

Drawing is more fun to me than writing. I think it's interesting to talk to different cartoonists about how those activities work for them. I'm a very writerly cartoonist. I certainly spend more time on the writing than I do on the drawing, even though the drawing, of course, is very time-consuming.

Cartooning is an honorable thing.

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

I've always liked writing. Even when I was in art school and thought I was going to be a gallery painter, I liked to pair my artwork with writing. And so that naturally led to drawing comics.

You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.

I minored in creative writing in college, and I've played with the idea of doing something more hybrid, but comics are my first love.

I am glad that I wrote something that brought joy to millions of people.

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

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.

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

I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.

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.

I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.

I never really read comics. I bought them, and I would draw them.

The real power of comics is writing as you draw.

If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write.

I love to draw and paint - that's what makes me happy.

The reason I love comics and have collected them for 37 years is because I always wanted to be an illustrator and a writer - and comics are really the perfect blend of those two mediums.

At 16, I was drawing cartoons, and I wanted to carry on being a cartoonist.

Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.

Comics is different than writing because when you draw something you are trying to visualize it and you are trying to put yourself in that space. And when you're drawing something, all sorts of associations come up in my mind that I never would have thought of otherwise.

It's not movies and it's not "fine art." The beauty of a comic is that it's clear, direct communication. My work is getting simpler and more cartoony because I'm much more interested in communication now than in any illustrative value.

When I was writing songs, I always thought I'd make more of a career out of the drawings, the comics even more than the music.

There are certain comics that just seem like they have this perfect balance between dialogue and image that I can't not read. I'll want to save it for later, and the next thing I know, I'm reading it. That's what I'm kind of trying to do with my comics.

I need to write to be happy.