Jeff Lemire Quotes

I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff.

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

Maybe the best comics are written by people who really are at ease in the comic world.

I came to think that nobody from England could draw American comic books, because they were clearly all done by this sort of Mafia, all these guys with Italian and Irish names who had the whole thing sewn up. It was actually seeing a comic book drawn by Barry Smith, who was about my age, and English.

Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.

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

When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz.

When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didn't introduce myself as an author, but only as a designer.

As lifelong fans of comic books, Dan Didio and myself, we definitely have our own takes on what make for successful comics and the kind of comics that we want to publish.

I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.

I'm very much influenced by your traditional comic book artists like Jack Kirby, Alex Toth and Walter Simonson. Their styles were sort of what I was gravitating towards.

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

Frank Miller and David Mack are incredible artists.

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.'

I knew I really wanted to work in comics in 1979.

I love writing novels, but there is something deeply invigorating about the comic-book medium.

I think, for the most part, comics have devolved into fantasy for the sake of fantasy.

I can tell you, young 22-year-old Rob Liefeld was having quite a run.

I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.

When I started writing comics, 'comics writer' was the most obscure job in the world! If I wanted to be a celebrity, I would have become a moody English screen actor.

And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client.

There are too many good comic book writers out there. I'd rather remain a fanboy.

From 'The Sandman' and 'Black Orchid' to 'Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?,' Neil Gaiman has provided some of the most memorable stories of the comic book industry.

Comics have always been storyboards.

I'm sure that no matter what I'm involved in, I'll always be doing comics, at least in some minor capacity.