Art Spiegelman Quotes

I read graphic novels, here and there, but I'm not a comic book guy, as much.

Graphic novel genre become really quite popular. It's really a big screen film genre that they have successfully moved into the small screen.

Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction.

I certainly think we're going to see more and more graphic novels and more illustrated novels.

I have to read comic books all first, because now when you get into graphic novels, they are definitely in deep graphic.

In the '40s and '50s, a lot of teachers and librarians saw the graphic novel as the enemy of reading.

You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically.

The 'Barnaby' books were always intended to be graphic novels.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused.

I read comics and stuff. I buy a lot of comics, a lot of films and boxsets.

The difference between graphic novels and web comics is even greater than graphic novels and story boarding. Web comics really is a legitimately separate genre.

Obviously, I love superheroes; I love comic book characters, but I... I guess I've had a lifelong affection for comics, and while I love the characters so much, I also love the medium.

I never was a big comic book fan. Obviously I'd heard them growing up from my friends who did read them, but I never was a big comic book reader.

I was not a big comic-book reader.

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 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.

I'm not not a fan of graphic novels, but it's not like one of my pastimes, reading graphic novels.

I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I've written a graphic novel. How you carry a story in pictures is different than how you do it in text.

I've said this before, but I don't like putting captions in my comic books. I feel, for me, they become a crutch, a way to ignore the essential fact that our medium is a visual medium, and the greatest pleasures to be derived from comics are how stories can be told with pictures.

I get inspired from all different kinds of places - cartoons, comic books, movies and things like that.

'Scalped' is representative of the kinds of stories I like to read and I like to watch.

I can't turn hip-hop off, just like I can't turn comic books off. It blends into everything for me.

Comics are primal, down and dirty.

I always loved comic books and I'm still a great fan of the graphic novel.