Comic Genre Quotes

If you do approach a comics publisher, make sure it's one that publishes the kind of book you want to make. Don't take your literary fiction to Marvel or DC; don't pitch your Spider-Man epic to Image.

Be it a video game, comic book, or cheque book, the question always is, 'What story do you have to tell?'

I'm a fan myself, so I try to write the kind of comics I want to read.

While there are different genres of comedy, I am for family entertainment.

I'm not temperamentally into high comedy. I'm not a Noel Coward kind of girl.

I was writing the kind of comic that would make me, at age 26 or 27, go down to a comic book store every month and spend my $2. That was my starting point. I wanted to write a comic that I would read. And that's still my agenda.

I love broad comedy. It has its place. If I were to do that, I'd love to do physical comedy.

I feel like there are comic book artists who are comic book artists, and then there's comic book artists who are cartoonists.

As it turned out, if you look at the history, everything in superhero comic books pretty much lies between Superman and Batman: Superman being the greatest superhero there is, and Batman being the one of the few superheroes who has no superpowers and is, in fact, not a superhero.

I think, for the most part, comics have devolved into fantasy for the sake of fantasy.

The lovely thing about writing comics for so many years is that comics is a medium that is mistaken for a genre. It's not that there are not genres within comics, but because comics tend to be regarded as a genre in itself, content becomes secondary; as long as I was doing a comic, people would pick it up.

Well, don't tell Steve Niles but I just don't think horror works in comics.

'American Psycho' is violent. 'Apocalypse Now' is violent. 'Officer Downe' is a comic and not violent to me.

I'm kind of a comic book geek, but I'm not really a super hero comic book geek.

A comedy that is ironic, sometimes bitter, in some cases even dramatic, tragic: This is what Italian comedy is.

I have a great affection for comics, and I think that people underrate comics as a genre.

People don't like to say comic so they say Graphic Novel, despite the fact that I don't think the true Graphic Novel has been written anywhere.

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.

I feel when a writer treats a character as 'precious,' the writer runs the risk of turning them into a comic book character. There's nothing wrong with comic book characters in comic books, but I don't write comic books.

'100 Bullets' is such a post-modern noir; there are certain rules you gotta follow.

I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed of buying comics... I'm not a graphic novelist. I am a cartoonist and I make comics and I am very happy about it.

I know '100 Bullets' is not what traditionally people think of as comics.

'Comic book' has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So someone will call 'Die Hard' a 'comic-book movie,' when it has nothing to do with comic books. I'd rather have comics be the vehicle by which stories are told.

I think the genre of comics sometimes overtakes the medium, and people assume that they are kind of frivolous. If you have a good, strong story teller, they can be as affecting as any character in literature. Period.

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics.