Diana Gabaldon Quotes

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.

It blows my mind the way Frank Miller can write.

There are great comic books, these great geniuses that manage to tell you a story in one frame, and that became the thing that opened my eyes.

I've read comics all my life and have wanted to write a comic for as long as I can remember. Alex Barnaby and Sam Hooker seemed like the perfect team to make the move into the graphic medium.

Ever since I was a child, I've been a huge comic and graphic novel fan, but I've never tried writing one before.

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

You know, comics were created at the same time as the cinema. And the cinema very quickly became a major art. Cartooning didn't become a major art. There's a reason for that. People don't know how to deal with drawings.

I want to work on the 'True Blood' comic for as long as they'll let me.

I tend to like writing long stories in comics. I worked on 'Flash,' 'Teen Titans' and 'JSA' for years. I always like diving into characters.

Cartooning is an honorable thing.

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.

I've always wanted to be a manga-ka, so I'm doing what I love.

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.

For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.

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

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

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.

I am quite convinced now... that the actual training of drawing cartoons - which is, of course, my style - led to my producing Spot. Cartoons must be very simple and have as few words as possible, and so, too, must the 'Spot' books.

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 don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.

When I was a kid, I could draw, and my ambition was to be a cartoonist. I wanted to draw comics. But I also liked newspaper comics.

I love writing novels, but there is something deeply invigorating about the comic-book medium.

I'm kind of a graphic novel ambassador.

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

I've always liked writing. Even when I was in art school and thought I was going to be a gallery painter, I liked to pair my artwork with writing. And so that naturally led to drawing comics.