Joe Simon Quotes

For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.

I'm always interested in using comics in different ways.

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

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

It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.

Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from.

The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.

Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.

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

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.

I've done illustration on the side. But other than that, comics have been my main things.

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

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

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

A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately.

Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.

As a fan and collector of 'MAD' magazines as a kid, I am well aware that my art is unworthy. I remain in absolute awe of 'MAD' artist Mort Drucker and loved Wally Wood and Harvey Kurtzman and Al Jaffee and Don Martin and Angelo Torres and Peter Kuper and Sergio Aragones.

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.

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

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.

Who doesn't want to draw Batman or Superman? Everyone would like to be able to draw them. I've been really lucky when it comes to the characters that I get to illustrate.

My first influences were superhero artists.

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

There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic books. But the true cognoscenti know graphic novels are - at their best - an amazing blend of art literature and the theater of the mind.