John Lewis Quotes

In a way, 'Sin City's designed to be paced somewhere between an American comic book and Japanese manga. Working in black and white, I realized that the eye is less patient, and you have to make your point, and sometimes repeat it. Slowing things down is harder in black and white, because there isn't as much for the eye to enjoy.

All cartoonists are linked together in the world - it's our language, one we can communicate in.

Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith in the artists to allow them to do their job.

Comics don't work without the visuals, obviously.

Film is anti-language.

I've said this before, but I don't like putting captions in my comic books. I feel, for me, they become a crutch, a way to ignore the essential fact that our medium is a visual medium, and the greatest pleasures to be derived from comics are how stories can be told with pictures.

The best cartoons have no words at all - just the image pops out.

Visual storytelling utilizes both language and art to pass on the essence of who we are.

Silent films weren't so different from my comics - the basic choice both offer an artist is what do you show and what do you tell.

People unacquainted with graphic novels, including journalists, tend to think of 'Watchmen' as a book by Alan Moore that happens to have some illustrations. And that does a disservice to the entire form.

Images have a unique power to impart that which is beyond words.

In film, you have the luxury of accomplishing what you need in 24 frames every second. Comics, you only have five or six panels a page to do that.

With comics, you've got to develop some kind of shorthand. You can't make every drawing look like a detailed etching. The average reader actually doesn't want all that detail; it interferes with the flow of the reading process.

For me, the perfect film has no dialogue at all. It's purely a visual, emotional, visceral kind of experience. And I think one can create wonderful depth and meaning and communication without using words. I started out as an illustrator and a cartoonist and caricature artist, so for me the visual is primary.

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

Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.

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.

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

A picture is a poem without words.

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

But empirically I've come to understand that my photographs really don't do any harm.

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

A picture is worth a thousand words.

Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.