Marc Maron Quotes

Comics also led a lot of young people to science fiction.

I have nothing to do with comics. I know nothing about comics. I am aware of the importance of comics, but they're not within my world. Not because I feel that I'm above it, but just that micro-surgery is not in my world either. Is that a deficit or is that an advantage?

If you don't laugh, you're going to cry and people are crying. That's why I guess you have lots of people like comedians to keep us laughing.

The lovely thing about writing comics for so many years is that comics is a medium that is mistaken for a genre. It's not that there are not genres within comics, but because comics tend to be regarded as a genre in itself, content becomes secondary; as long as I was doing a comic, people would pick it up.

Funny always makes the bad things go away.

Whether planned or not, humor takes our mind off of our troubles.

Comics are in my blood. It's my strange addiction, and I love it.

I love comics, and I can't imagine life without them. I love newspaper comics.

My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.

I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd.

I'm a comic book fan.

Comics brought me to the dance. It'll always be my first loyalty.

Comics? Honestly, that's more a matter of nostalgia for me. I think most of that energy has gone to my love of literature and my love of film.

Comics have always been storyboards.

I first became an Alan Moore fan in Covent Garden on a Saturday afternoon in 1987, when I bought a copy of 'Watchmen,' his graphic novel about ageing superheroes and nuclear apocalypse.

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

I was into Alan Moore and Frank Miller. I was a teenager when all those books where coming out for the first time - 'Watchmen,' 'V for Vendetta.' It was a great time to get into comics.

Comics were not something that as a young kid you could say you were into in Manchester, Missouri. Kids did not read comic books back then.

I am a huge, raving fan of writer Matt Fraction. His semi-indie 'Casanova' series is an ongoing masterpiece of 21st-century American comics - and his run on 'Immortal Iron Fist' with Ed Brubaker was pure, yummy martial-arts-fantasy deliciousness.

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

But one of my absolutely favorite things to do is go to comic book stores on the weekends. I'm a huge comic book nerd.

People underestimate the complexity of comic books.

I had never been a comic book person before, really, because I had no access to them. Once I had access, I thought that these are just another avenue for telling stories and delving into the imagination.

I use humor as a way to digest anything.

DC is the foundation of what we all know about comic books and heroes. They've had great storytellers, great illustrates, as a part of that tradition.