Jaime Hernandez Quotes

I would love to do a full-scale graphic novel.

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

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

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

The real power of comics is writing as you draw.

I get asked a lot about writing for games and prose and film, and I will do some, but I can never see myself leaving comics. I love it too much.

I was going to be a storybook illustrator or an editorial illustrator. I ended up in a comics class by mistake because all the others were full, so I was like 'I'll stay for one class, and then I'll go take something else, because I don't care about comics.' I got pulled in really fast; I discovered I had a voice in comics that I didn't know I had.

I minored in creative writing in college, and I've played with the idea of doing something more hybrid, but comics are my first love.

Cartooning is an honorable thing.

I love graphic novels - I love reading them, I enjoyed writing them, I would love to go back and do them again. I hope I'm savvy enough to do them in the right way.

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.

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

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.

A comic can be aesthetically beautiful. I think they captured it beautifully and accurately.

Cartooning at its best is a fine art. I'm a cartoonist who works in the medium of animation, which also allows me to paint my cartoons.

I'm always interested in using comics in different ways.

Writing and drawing comics for the sheer joy of it - that's true bliss.

I've always preferred comics that really rely on visual storytelling. It's what makes comics special. Otherwise, you're better off reading a novel.

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.

When I was writing songs, I always thought I'd make more of a career out of the drawings, the comics even more than the music.

When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

If you want to draw comics, you really have to love to draw, as you will be spending many hours sitting down with a pencil or pen in your hand.

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

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

Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.