Brian Azzarello Quotes

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.

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

I just really respond to comics. I find it a really exciting medium.

The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.

It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.

But to me what seems to be missing in a lot of portfolios is Cartooning.

Graphic novels are such a visually creative world - it's really interesting what they can do in one sketch. Now I'm hooked.

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.

Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.

It's not movies and it's not "fine art." The beauty of a comic is that it's clear, direct communication. My work is getting simpler and more cartoony because I'm much more interested in communication now than in any illustrative value.

Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.

My first influences were superhero artists.

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

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.

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

What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.

I had a lot of ideas on how comics worked and pretty early on I had this idea that it would be fun to explain them in comics form.

Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from.

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

Comics have always been storyboards.

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 hadn't thought specifically about doing graphic novels until a couple of my friends got contracts for them. Then I started picturing how various of my stories or poems would work in an illustrated format and thinking how cool that would be.

I love the interplay between words and pictures. I love the fact that in comics, your pictures are acting like words, presenting themselves to be read.

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.

Don Martin was the one who really stood out. I really always loved his work. He was such a great artist.