Travis Beacham Quotes

And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client.

I love comics and have since I was a kid. That is what gave me the idea to create my own.

I'm sure that no matter what I'm involved in, I'll always be doing comics, at least in some minor capacity.

That's what I really wanted to do when I was 16, be in comics!

I never thought I would work in mainstream superhero comics or Valiant or Marvel. I just set out to make the kinds of stories I wanted to make, which at the beginning was small personal stuff like 'Essex County.'

I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.

I knew I really wanted to work in comics in 1979.

The first work I ever did in comics was for Archie Comics, and I didn't do that very long because I did other stuff.

I created lots of characters in high school and college, and the first character I created in pro comics was Liana, Green Lantern of M'Elu, for a backup story in 'Green Lantern #162,' my first professional sale.

I grew up reading a lot of superhero comics, so it's really fun to take a shot at one myself and see what happens.

I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can be.

All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.

I ended up reading comics and just started drawing at a very young age. By high school, I was putting together longer stories. In college, I started doing strips for the newspaper and doing mini-comics. It sort of grew in scope and scale over time.

Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher.

Ever since I'm done with Zim everyone thinks that I'm going to go back to comics. I've been flooded with emails asking me if I'm working on the new Johnny over and over again.

Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other practitioners.

I decided I was going to tell these stories. I went around and met Crumb. He was the cartoonist. I started realizing comics weren't just kid stuff.

Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith in the artists to allow them to do their job.

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.

All of the characters at Marvel were my ideas, but the ideas meant nothing unless I had somebody who could illustrate it.

'The Great Comic Book Artists' is about three score of the best practitioners of graphic story art.

I read comics because of the art.

I knew I wanted to do comics, but I wasn't sure what they were about or what I wanted them to be about.

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

I love writing comics too much.