Bruce Eric Kaplan Quotes

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

You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.

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.

For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.

You can write a script, but that's just a starting point as a cartoonist. The heart of the process comes when you start to draw it, and you work out how to lay the page out, how best to tell the story.

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

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.

Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times.

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

Cartoonists' dirty secret is that we tend to come up with stories that involve things that are really fun to draw.

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

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

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.

A comic strip has a rhythm and a pattern, and you got to get in and out quick. So you set up a joke, tell the joke, and done.

Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.

The real power of comics is writing as you draw.

I've always said that what cartoonists do is create friends for readers.

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.

A cartoonist creates his whole universe without any input.

The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.

Some graphic narrative art presses against the panel: you wrestle with it at the level of the paper.

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

It seemed to me you could do anything in comics. So I started doing my thing, which is mainly influenced by novelists, stand-up comedians, that sort of thing.

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.