Dave Morris Quotes

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

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.

You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically.

Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story.

I always loved comic books and I'm still a great fan of the graphic novel.

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

I don't think it's a coincidence that comic books appeal so strongly to children. Not that it negates any of their power for adults, but there is something about comics that makes them a perfect storytelling system for children.

My first influences were superhero artists.

I had a lot of ideas on how comics worked and pretty early on I had this idea that it would be fun to explain them in comics form.

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.

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.

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing.

I love the interplay between words and pictures. I love the fact that in comics, your pictures are acting like words, presenting themselves to be read.

I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.

We relate comics to the main super-heroes, but it's a great medium through which all sorts of stories are told.

Comics don't work without the visuals, obviously.

I've loved comics since I was very young, and I've always liked telling stories.

People underestimate the complexity of comic books.

I love writing novels, but there is something deeply invigorating about the comic-book medium.

I love print comics.

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

One way of understanding a graphic novel is that it's an ambitious comic and one way or another my comics have had ambitions. I have no problem with escapism. When I get my depressions all I want to do is escape reality.

Comics deal with two fundamental communicating devices: words and images. Admittedly this is an arbitrary separation. But, since in the modern world of communication they are treated as independent disciplines, it seems valid. Actually, the are derivatives of a single origin and in the skillful employment of words and images lies the expressive potential of the medium.

Kid ... Comics will break your heart.

Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.