Box Brown Quotes

For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.

The wonderful thing about the cartoon form is it's a combination of words and pictures. You don't have to choose, and the contribution of the two often winds up being greater than the sum of its parts.

Comics don't work without the visuals, obviously.

Comics deal with two fundamental communicating devices: words and images. Admittedly this is an arbitrary separation. But, since in the modern world of communication they are treated as independent disciplines, it seems valid. Actually, the are derivatives of a single origin and in the skillful employment of words and images lies the expressive potential of the medium.

All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.

I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.

Comics is still my first love. But I always did other kinds of writing, too, so I think of myself as a writer first.

Cartooning is an honorable thing.

I love graphic novels - I love reading them, I enjoyed writing them, I would love to go back and do them again. I hope I'm savvy enough to do them in the right way.

I think graphic novels are closer to prose than film, which is a really different form.

It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.

When I read 'Watchmen,' it changed my view of so many things. It was the first time I'd read a graphic novel really like that.

When I realized that people actually wrote comics, that it was a job people could do, I thought, 'Gee, these things are only 17 pages long! I could probably finish one of those and find out whether I suck before I've spent five years of my life on it.' In stumbling into comics that way, I discovered that I loved the form.

My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.

I love print fiction, but sometimes when I'm reading a good graphic novel or manga, I find myself envying those who work in an illustrated format.

I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.

Well, there are better cartoonists now than there ever have been. I firmly believe that. There's some amazing work being done.

There are great comic books, these great geniuses that manage to tell you a story in one frame, and that became the thing that opened my eyes.

When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.

I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I've written a graphic novel. How you carry a story in pictures is different than how you do it in text.

To be an animator you have to be able to tell stories but I'm not very verbal - I definitely do it through pictures.

I've always liked writing. Even when I was in art school and thought I was going to be a gallery painter, I liked to pair my artwork with writing. And so that naturally led to drawing comics.

I'm not ashamed of comic books. You have some people that are like, 'We're trying to elevate comic books.' Comic books have always told great dramatic stories.

Comic books and films have a lot more in common than, say, comics and books or films and books. The two art forms, to me, seem like pretty close siblings.

I get asked a lot about writing for games and prose and film, and I will do some, but I can never see myself leaving comics. I love it too much.