Dave Gibbons Quotes

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.

The graphic novel is a great form that can be used to marry the book format with the movie.

I think with something like 'Watchmen' you can genuinely call that a graphic novel because it has the weight and the intent of a proper novel and it also is the complete story.

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

Graphic novels are such a visually creative world - it's really interesting what they can do in one sketch. Now I'm hooked.

I'm kind of a graphic novel ambassador.

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.'

People unacquainted with graphic novels, including journalists, tend to think of 'Watchmen' as a book by Alan Moore that happens to have some illustrations. And that does a disservice to the entire form.

One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice.

I don't think anyone has written a great graphic novel.

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 didn't expect 'Scott Pilgrim' to be successful. I just made this weird comic to entertain my friends.

I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.

A typical twenty-page short story would work quite well as a graphic novel. A single graphic novel of maybe 120 pages would condense down into a short story quite nicely.

Comics don't work without the visuals, obviously.

I've always preferred comics that really rely on visual storytelling. It's what makes comics special. Otherwise, you're better off reading a novel.

The language in a comic book or a graphic novel and the cinematographic language are really not the same language. They are false brother and sister. It's not at all the same.

I enjoy the art, and I enjoy drawing. I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book.

Jordie Bellaire knows how to tell a story with color.

I think the best thing I learned from drawing comics is that it's a great exercise in concision.

I'm not not a fan of graphic novels, but it's not like one of my pastimes, reading graphic novels.

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.

Writing a graphic novel is hard. It feels closer to a screen play than to a novel.

I love written books and novels, but I really love graphic novels and comic books!