Gil Kane Quotes

I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely.

I've read comics all my life and have wanted to write a comic for as long as I can remember. Alex Barnaby and Sam Hooker seemed like the perfect team to make the move into the graphic medium.

Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.

That's what I really wanted to do when I was 16, be in comics!

To be able to write 'Superman,' to be able to work with the legendary artist who is John Romita Jr., I signed on as soon as I could.

Ever since I'm done with Zim everyone thinks that I'm going to go back to comics. I've been flooded with emails asking me if I'm working on the new Johnny over and over again.

Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other practitioners.

Frank Miller and David Mack are incredible artists.

I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I've written a graphic novel.

Ever since I was a child, I've been a huge comic and graphic novel fan, but I've never tried writing one before.

My father spent his entire early career as an illustrator for comic books: EC Comics like 'Tales from the Crypt' and 'Creepshow,' then moving on to such magazines as 'Mad' and 'Weird Science.'

It's a strange thing to be a so-called alternative cartoonist, because in the early part of my career, I was really tethered to the superhero world.

I love writing comics too much.

Coming from the world of comics, I was very surprised that writers and illustrators, for the most part, don't talk, and they don't collaborate.

I never thought I would work in mainstream superhero comics or Valiant or Marvel. I just set out to make the kinds of stories I wanted to make, which at the beginning was small personal stuff like 'Essex County.'

I have a great affection for comics, and I think that people underrate comics as a genre.

I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.

There is a sequence in my 'Detective Comics' run where you can't find consecutive issues by the same artist. That's intentional. That was done on purpose.

Geoff Johns is super talented, super smart.

Graphic novels and comic books, by and large, as you know, have cover art, and they have interior art. The interior art is never as detailed as the cover art.

Some comic artists I've known are better than most contemporary artists with work hanging in Tate Modern.

That was always my dream as a kid: to draw comic books.

All of the characters at Marvel were my ideas, but the ideas meant nothing unless I had somebody who could illustrate it.

I wrote a graphic novel that came out in 2011 called 'Everlast.' We had a really successful run with that.

'The Great Comic Book Artists' is about three score of the best practitioners of graphic story art.