Randall Munroe Quotes

Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists.

Pop culture is not about depth. It's about marketing, supply and demand, consumerism.

In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in.

Yeah, the New York Times is very intellectual and very, very prestigious, but it doesn't reach the market that People magazine does.

I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste.

As astute followers of 'Life in Hell' will notice, Akbar and Jeff wear the same striped T-shirt as Charlie Brown. 'Peanuts' was very important to me.

I seriously hate pop music and all things super-commercial.

Every poor designer can go with things that are popular at the moment.

For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.

Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.

Today it's not culture; it's box office.

For a long time, I was under the impression that 'Terry and the Pirates' was the best comic strip in the United States.

I wasn't intending to create a comic strip to begin with. So I think I wasn't aware that when the strip started, there had never been a woman's voice quite like this in the newspaper.

Whatever is popular deserves attention.

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it's popular, it's not culture.

The business of entertainment is business first. I do a comic strip; the job, the business, is to be funny. If I’m not funny, the politics don’t matter, because no one will read it.

People gravitate to what they believe to be popular... Technology is enabling even more of that.

Honestly, I grew up a huge Peanuts fan.

That was my relationship to 'Archie' for the most part: just the Sunday strips.

I am not against doing commercial cinema at all.

I've only experienced it a few times where you get to have a thing that simultaneously gets some critical respect, some critical success, while also having sales success. Sometimes you get one or the other if you're lucky.

As I see it, mainstream comics now speak only to the hardcore few who stayed; conversing in a weird, garbled, visual pig latin only they can understand - rendering the term 'mainstream' a hollow joke - while the true mainstream, the other 99.9% of the populace, find enjoyment elsewhere.

Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time.

Popularity has become its own justification.

Eat turkey all night long, 50 million Elvis fans can't be wrong.