Panel Art Quotes

I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

Graphic novels are such a visually creative world - it's really interesting what they can do in one sketch. Now I'm hooked.

I hadn't thought specifically about doing graphic novels until a couple of my friends got contracts for them. Then I started picturing how various of my stories or poems would work in an illustrated format and thinking how cool that would be.

When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything.

I think the problem with the term graphic novel is it sounds pompous, it sounds pretentious, whereas on the continent, they call it an album, which to me sounds, it's got more much of a connotation of a kind of a music single and an album collection.

I'm kind of a graphic novel ambassador.

I love print fiction, but sometimes when I'm reading a good graphic novel or manga, I find myself envying those who work in an illustrated format.

I started out as a novelist, and I think novels have gotten a little stiff, a little repetitive, and the energy in comics was much more appealing.

Comics are about the illusion of movement, and movies are about movement itself.

Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as a writer first.

I'm more into graphic novels than comic books.

The difference between graphic novels and web comics is even greater than graphic novels and story boarding. Web comics really is a legitimately separate genre.

I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is just a way of narrating - it's just a media type.

I'm not not a fan of graphic novels, but it's not like one of my pastimes, reading graphic novels.

The graphic novel is a great form that can be used to marry the book format with the movie.

I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.

I love written books and novels, but I really love graphic novels and comic books!

I get asked a lot about writing for games and prose and film, and I will do some, but I can never see myself leaving comics. I love it too much.