Jake Tapper Quotes

There's a creative freedom to comics, and a fulfillment I get out of panel layouts and storytelling that is hard for me to get anywhere else.

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

I don't really like the term 'artist.' I'm not sure what it means. It's a bit like 'love.'

I so much appreciate it when anybody tries to make something and tries to be an artist - I'm happy to see the work.

'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work.

I think I've been able to build up a wide range of styles in storytelling, using comics in different ways from project to project. I think my art has become more accomplished, although I try to keep it from becoming slick or superficial.

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

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.

Maybe I'm a dream artist, as they call it.

If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.

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.

I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well.

Competitions are for horses, not artists.

To get syndicated as a comic strip artist is as likely as winning the lottery.

When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.

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

Comics have always been storyboards.

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.

I got nice rejections explaining that historical fiction was a difficult sell. But I kept trying.

The real power of comics is writing as you draw.

Comics don't work without the visuals, obviously.

Acting is definitely an incredible pursuit, but on the other side, it's a business, and learning where art meets business was a huge lesson for me. The more you can wrap your mind around that idea - that yes, this is my art, but it's tied into business - the more it helps you understand and move past the failures.

It was always in the back of my mind while we were working on the first year of 'Rookie' that we'd do a print version at some point.

For me, storytelling is what I love to do and that's my life's work. Football is not my life's work. It's just part of my life's journey, but creativity is my actual life's work.