Mark Waid Quotes

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.

I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers, and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level, the transition to digital isn't something I welcome wholeheartedly.

Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.

I've been a Marvel reader since I was just a kid, and I've dreamed of being a Marvel writer for almost as long, so being tapped to officially join the team is truly something.

I've done work for hire. I've worked for DC and Dark Horse.

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.

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 do worry that the days of the physical paper are seriously numbered.

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

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'll still do print comics; as long as there's a market, I'll still be there. I just have a hard time believing that's the future.

Being able to work in comics at all - I know I came into it from a different medium, but I'd like to stay here. It's not like a weird touristy thing for me.

Comic books have gone mainstream. The audience is there.

As I see it, mainstream comics now speak only to the hardcore few who stayed; conversing in a weird, garbled, visual pig latin only they can understand - rendering the term 'mainstream' a hollow joke - while the true mainstream, the other 99.9% of the populace, find enjoyment elsewhere.

After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there's no better place for new ideas than comics.

I'm a big comic book guy.

I love print comics.

I ended up making my name at Marvel, but I've always desired greater access to the DCU characters. Bottom line: I'm a huge fan.

I'd hate to be writing 'Adventure Time' comics and not be excited about it.

Comics publishers are used to looking in a very, very narrow focused prism. It's like when I started writing 'X-Men.' Our 'meat and potatoes' money was made of newsstand sales, while anything that came through the Direct Market was considered gravy.

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

Our economy, for a long while, has been transitioning from one reliant on industrial strength to one based on digital information. The next step in this transition is a digital economy shaped by connectivity.

I was fortunate that I was born in an era where comic books kind of grew up with me.

I've been involved in lots of comic book stuff; I've done numerous films based on comic books and TV shows.

I've been reading Ed Brubaker comics since the first appearance of Ed Brubaker comics and every single time he announces a new title I mutter to myself: ugh! I wish I would've thought of that!