Gillian Flynn Quotes

I've done illustration on the side. But other than that, comics have been my main things.

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

A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately.

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

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.'

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.

Every day I run into people who don't know what I do. And even after I explain it they still don't know what I do. So now I can just say, 'Pick up the Locas book!' And that tells them all.

Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.

The real power of comics is writing as you draw.

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.

I've been writing for a long time, and I've loved comic books for a long time - forever - but I had to learn how to write in a different way to write sequential art for a graphic novel. It's been an interesting transition.

The graphic novel form really interests me and I like the freedom that format offers.

The language in a comic book or a graphic novel and the cinematographic language are really not the same language. They are false brother and sister. It's not at all the same.

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.

Jordie Bellaire knows how to tell a story with color.

A comic book is the opposite of a cartoon. In a cartoon, you want to simplify the idea, so when they look at it at a glance, they get it. Boom. Simple. Direct to the point. But when you're drawing Groo, now it's a narrative, a story. You want the viewer to get involved in the story. You want him to feel like he's in the town to follow your main character. So I love to add lots and lots of things in it. Things that people will enjoy going back to and say, "Oh yeah, that's how a market must have looked in this fantasy world, with people selling meat here and dishes here."

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.

I've got an original graphic novel called 'The Indian and the Bandit' that I'm writing with a childhood friend.

All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.

The exciting thing about doing art for someone else's story is how I can translate their world through pictures, and that's always a pretty big challenge.

Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.