Mickey Spillane Quotes

Especially with Elektra, because I'm doing a lot of the covers for the new version of Elektra.

Venom first made his appearance some years ago in a Spider-Man book, and was a huge best-seller.

Once publishers got interested in it, it was a year in developing, and it was launched, I think, in 1960. But Willie Lumpkin didn't last long - it only last a little better than a year, maybe a year and a half.

I actually put Jubilee in 'Squirrel Girl.' I made it a priority.

Venom is such a great character, it will be fun to see who he tangles with along the way.

I'll continue doing 'Jingle Belle' as long as I've got a good story for her.

'Deadpool Bad Blood' is a book that long-term fans of Wade Wilson can appreciate it along with newcomers and movie fans. We gave this book everything we had, and I think it shows.

'The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'.

'Comic book' has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So someone will call 'Die Hard' a 'comic-book movie,' when it has nothing to do with comic books. I'd rather have comics be the vehicle by which stories are told.

When I drew Captain America in 'The Ultimates,' I hated my Cap, even though some people are like, 'Man, your Cap's cool!' and they made statues out of it.

We're sort of putting a slightly different spin on Steve Rogers. He's a guy that wants to serve his country, but he's not a flag-waver. We're reinterpreting, sort of, what the comic book version of Steve Rogers was.

'Cerebus' is my attempt at a literary work.

I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books.

Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon.

Raymond Chandler once wrote that Dashiell Hammett gave murder back to the people who really committed it.

It's always been a dream for me to play a comic book character.

'Joker' was a violent, dark, and brutal book, so I wanted to do something a little less heavy. I played around with the idea of a children's book, and that eventually became 'Noel.' And I just kept finding these parallels between things I could do with Batman and Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol.'

One of the things I would love to do is 'Axe Cop,' which is a comic book. I would like to be involved in 'Axe Cop' someday. I would also love to be in a Western.

Seth Meyers and I wrote a 'Spider-Man' comic.

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

I particular enjoy the crime writer, Walter Ellis Mosley. He does a series of Chandler-esque detective stories.

Alan Moore's first choice to be the Comedian... was Burt Reynolds. But I never saw myself as Burt Reynolds; I saw myself as Edward Blake.

Ross McDonald had a greater influence on me than any other writer. His style of writing, the repeated theme of the past coming out to grab somebody, that's very attractive to me as a reader and, now, as a writer.

My character is Toni Topaz, and she's from the new-generation Archie Comics. I will be rocking the signature pink hair.

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.