Adrian Tomine Quotes

That was always my dream as a kid: to draw comic books.

The reason I love comics and have collected them for 37 years is because I always wanted to be an illustrator and a writer - and comics are really the perfect blend of those two mediums.

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

We can't really make a living doing comic books, despite the fact that would be an awfully fun way to make a living.

I don't really have any great interest in writing for movies. Comics, to me, is a much more promising field. There's still a lot of ground to be broken in comics, whereas movies, to a degree... I don't know. They're a wonderful art form, but they're not my favorite art form. They might not even be in the top five of my favorite art forms.

When I started writing comics, 'comics writer' was the most obscure job in the world! If I wanted to be a celebrity, I would have become a moody English screen actor.

I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, but I was an art student and I was drawing a lot as a kid.

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

And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say.

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

I love writing comics too much.

What comics sacrifice and what lives they live - I know that most of their lives, their adult lives, they're sitting around or walking around with notebooks, writing things down. Usually they're fairly sensitive. Usually they're very bright. And that makes them poets.

I think comics overall would be better. I think there's a tremendous potential to be tapped.

I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely.

I feel like there are comic book artists who are comic book artists, and then there's comic book artists who are cartoonists.

There hasn't been enough change in comics to suit me. I don't know why exactly.

When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didn't introduce myself as an author, but only as a designer.

I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.

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 brought me to the dance. It'll always be my first loyalty.

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 are really my life blood in a lot of respects.

Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer.

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.

Geoff Johns is super talented, super smart.