Todd McFarlane Quotes

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!

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

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

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 feel like there are comic book artists who are comic book artists, and then there's comic book artists who are cartoonists.

I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.

I've done illustration on the side. But other than that, comics have been my main things.

At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day.

Spider-Man initially made me want to come to New York and work for Marvel; I wanted to be a comic book artist.

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.

We can't really make a living doing comic books, despite the fact that would be an awfully fun way to make a living.

I'm never one to care too much if my work becomes adapted; I make comic books.

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

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

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

I really, really, really love writing comics.

It wasn't until I went to my first comic convention while I was in high school that I got to see actual comic book artists and original artwork in real life, up close. That was when I first realized that this is what I wanted to do for a living.

The reason I love comics and have collected them for 37 years is because I always wanted to be an illustrator and a writer - and comics are really the perfect blend of those two mediums.

One of the reasons that DC, Marvel, and other comic book companies have always asked me to do covers and variant covers is because they know that when they tell me 'icon,' I jump over their words, and I give them an iconic cover - but while I'm doing it, there is going to be an idea there.

The first work I ever did in comics was for Archie Comics, and I didn't do that very long because I did other stuff.

I would definitely, definitely love to do more comic work. I think, creatively, there's something that's differently rewarding about it than the rewards of filmmaking.

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

I used to be really influenced by Brian Bendis, back in his indie days. But I guess I try to tone that down.

Kid ... Comics will break your heart.