Jim Lee Quotes

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

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

I read comics because of the art.

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

At the age that I was when I stopped reading comics, and with a set of talents that would seem to mark a future comic-book auteur, my son has had only a passing enthusiasm for the medium.

Print and digital comics will always coexist.

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.

Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.

There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic books. But the true cognoscenti know graphic novels are - at their best - an amazing blend of art literature and the theater of the mind.

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.

Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.

Comics are a wonderful form. You can do so much with it.

Comics are a dying art. If you ask a little kid to choose between a video game with insane graphics or comic books... you have to compete with cable, satellite TV with its thousands of channels, and with video games that are like movies, with CGI explosions where you can blow up worlds.

'The Great Comic Book Artists' is about three score of the best practitioners of graphic story art.

I believe monthly comics and the extended miniseries are the true hallmarks of comic art and storytelling.

I'm not ashamed of comic books. You have some people that are like, 'We're trying to elevate comic books.' Comic books have always told great dramatic stories.

The most impactful comics that I've read are the ones where the artists swung for the bleachers and tried to immerse you in their world.

I looked at comics like a buffet table, where you take a little bit of something and leave the other stuff behind.

I love print comics.

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

I'm a severe graphic novels junkie. People ask me about it, and I say I like the graphic novels. Comic books are for kids, and graphic novels are for adults. But you can't really separate the two.

You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.

Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe.

I love comic books. I just do.

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