Geoff Johns Quotes

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.

I never gave up on 'Archie.' I started picking up 'Archie' comics when I was in my thirties, and then I started subscribing to them.

I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourgeois so they wouldn't be ashamed of buying comics... I'm not a graphic novelist. I am a cartoonist and I make comics and I am very happy about it.

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.

Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe.

I'm actually a little comic nerd myself.

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

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.

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

It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year.

I tend to stay away from the comics.

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 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.

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

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

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

I love comics for comics' sake. Always have. Always will.

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 love a nicely designed paper comic but I don't need to own them. To me, comics are about reading them. If I can get that on a tablet and not have another pile of paper under my coffee table, then I will opt for digital.

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

I'm a big comic book guy.

I know a lot of people that still buy comics, go to the shop every week, I know people who read them on an iPad. My brother reads on an iPad every week, he downloads his comics every week.

I do know that people enjoy reading a comic book and saving it and collecting the comics. And sharing them and trading them with friends. That may be something you can't do as easily with digital comics.