Marjane Satrapi Quotes

I don't like 'graphic novel.' It's a word that publishers created for the bourgeois to read comics without feeling bad. Comics is just a way of narrating - it's just a media type.

People are so afraid to say the word 'comic'. It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to 'graphic novel' and that disappears.

I like collecting comics, I like buying comics, I like looking at comics, but I also read comics on digital readers, so any way people read comics is fine with me. Digital is just helping people who might not necessarily have access to comics help them; that's great.

I had a few comics, but I was by no means a huge aficionado. I was more of a 'Mad Magazine,' 'Calvin & Hobbes' sort of nerd.

I want to point out to adults that there is a world of good material available to you now in comic form - in this medium - and learn to give it your support because the more you support it, the better the material will be as it comes out.

Comic books are a big passion of mine.

I think a lot of the things in my life that I become most passionate about, and most excited about, are all from comics.

I don't think of cartoons or comics as being for kids.

I never really read comics. I bought them, and I would draw them.

Maybe they're not 'books,' but 'Acme Novelty Library' and 'Eightball' are two comics I can't get enough of.

It used to be that comic strips were the big thing, and comic books were toilet paper.

I know '100 Bullets' is not what traditionally people think of as comics.

You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically.

You know, comics were created at the same time as the cinema. And the cinema very quickly became a major art. Cartooning didn't become a major art. There's a reason for that. People don't know how to deal with drawings.

I'm actually a little comic nerd myself.

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

As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.

I tend to stay away from the comics.

The fine-art world knows very little about the cartoon world.

I grew up with comics. Whether it be from the East or the West, I devoured them.

I'm not into cartoons. That's the irony of it.

I'm more into graphic novels than comic books.

I love Bane. I love the Joker. I love Batman.

I'm not a knowledgeable comic fanatic, as a lot of other people are.

I am one of the lucky ones, to work with comic giants.