Martin Filler Quotes

I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.

I'm kind of a graphic novel ambassador.

I enjoy the art, and I enjoy drawing. I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book.

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

I think probably the first time I wanted to be an artist was when I was about six or seven years old. I used to get British comics and I clearly remember seeing my first American comic: an issue of 'Action Comics', with Superman on the cover with a treasure horde in a cave, and Lois saying something like 'I don't believe Superman is a miser!'

For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.

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

The New Look of Batman is more illustrative and realistic.

I didn't expect 'Scott Pilgrim' to be successful. I just made this weird comic to entertain my friends.

It was always in the back of my mind while we were working on the first year of 'Rookie' that we'd do a print version at some point.

I would love to do a full-scale graphic novel.

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.

Jordie Bellaire knows how to tell a story with color.

I think with something like 'Watchmen' you can genuinely call that a graphic novel because it has the weight and the intent of a proper novel and it also is the complete story.

We really lived, ate, drank and slept Batman - ideas, characters and stories.

'Comic book' has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So someone will call 'Die Hard' a 'comic-book movie,' when it has nothing to do with comic books. I'd rather have comics be the vehicle by which stories are told.

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.

One of my favorite graphic novels of all time is Grant Morrison's 'Earth-2.'

I think the problem with the term graphic novel is it sounds pompous, it sounds pretentious, whereas on the continent, they call it an album, which to me sounds, it's got more much of a connotation of a kind of a music single and an album collection.

My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.

Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.

One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice.

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' is my first book, and it's the fulfillment of a life-long dream. I had always wanted to be a cartoonist, but I found that it was very tough to break into the world of newspaper syndication. So I started playing with a style that mixed cartoons and 'traditional' writing, and that's how 'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' was born.

I love graphic novels - I love reading them, I enjoyed writing them, I would love to go back and do them again. I hope I'm savvy enough to do them in the right way.