Dave Gibbons Quotes

I think the problem with the term graphic novel is it sounds pompous, it sounds pretentious, whereas on the continent, they call it an album, which to me sounds, it's got more much of a connotation of a kind of a music single and an album collection.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic books. But the true cognoscenti know graphic novels are - at their best - an amazing blend of art literature and the theater of the mind.

In the Golden Age of Batman, I penciled, inked, and lettered my strip by myself.

I thought about trying to do a strip. I even tried to do it, but I felt I didn't have the voice. Even though I liked that form, I didn't think I thought in the form of the three panels.

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.

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.

Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from.

Comics have always been storyboards.

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

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.

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.

I love the interplay between words and pictures. I love the fact that in comics, your pictures are acting like words, presenting themselves to be read.

Comics don't work without the visuals, obviously.

Comics are a wonderful form. You can do so much with it.

I've said this before, but I don't like putting captions in my comic books. I feel, for me, they become a crutch, a way to ignore the essential fact that our medium is a visual medium, and the greatest pleasures to be derived from comics are how stories can be told with pictures.

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