Sergio Aragones Quotes

Comics have always been storyboards.

I think you can do anything with comics that you could do in just about any art form.

I'm a big fan of 'Akira,' and I think comics are a great place to tell intelligent, fantastical stories. You can say stuff that you wouldn't be able to in other mediums.

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

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

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

And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say.

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.

The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of.

The reason I love comics and have collected them for 37 years is because I always wanted to be an illustrator and a writer - and comics are really the perfect blend of those two mediums.

Comics were a place where captivating images lit your imagination and showed you that you can create new kinds of people and worlds.

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

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

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.

Cartooning is an honorable thing.

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.

Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.

I'm a fan of the sensibility of comics, and I love the escapism of them and the defining of good and evil. They're just so creative, too.

I really, really, really love writing comics.

I think that cinema is medium of communication. It's as valid as novels or fine art.

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

I believe that comics are entirely for entertainment.