Ryan North Quotes

I have 15,000 comics in a warehouse, all bagged individually.

When I was coming up, I kept a ton of comic books, almost 300 comic books. Back in the day, they didn't used to cost that much, so I used to keep 'em, collect 'em, trade 'em.

I'm a huge comic book collector. When I was a kid, I had both Marvel and DC. I was my own librarian. I made card files. I had origin stories of all the characters, and cross-referenced when they appeared in other comic books. I was full on.

I hope I won't become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don't really know comic books all that well.

It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media.

I've keep every comic I've bought in my life. I used to be obsessive about boarding and bagging them all.

I was an enormous fan of Dan Slott's run, and John Byrne's run was a big deal for me. I found Slott's version of 'She-Hulk' first, and then I went back and looked up some of the older stuff because I liked it so much. And it was so good. It was perfect. It was my perfect comic book at the time that I found it.

My brother had boxes of comic books. He was really the collector.

I still have my first 'Black Lightning' that I got way back in the day, and my first 'Steel.' And I proudly display those comics, by the way. I have a lot of comics, but those are among the ones that mean the most to me.

I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.

I value my education, but I cannot put a value on it. I know it has been worth some money to me - I don't think 'The Post' would have hired me if I had lacked a degree - but I probably could have earned about the same if I had stayed in the insurance business, where I worked while going to college at night.

My brother and I used to collect comic books in San Francisco.

I've collected comics for many, many years, but I've usually collected older ones for whatever reason.

I always had a great history of comics. I've been buying them since I was six years old. I was a student of the craft.

I'm a big believer that if you buy a comic, you ought to own it.

From the time I was 5 years old, I collected comic books.

One older brother of mine collects comics, and when I was younger, I collected them, too.

One of the things that appealed to me most about comics was that you can pick the ones you like and build your own personal pantheon.

When I get into collecting things, I get a little obsessive. Which is why when I start buying comics, I buy way too many, and I have to stop myself.

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

I didn't read many comics as a kid - I've always been a really fast reader, and I would fly through a comic book in a few minutes and be so mad that it ended so quickly. But now that I've been in the business, I tend to look at the panels so much more carefully, and realize that so much of it is about the art; I don't think I got that before.

I feel sorry for people who only know comic books through movies. I really do.

I love comics for comics' sake. Always have. Always will.

I want to show there's an edgier side of people who love comic books. And there are people who don't look like you and me who do read comic books and who love artists.

'Batman' readers are the smartest readers in the world. I don't have to hold their hands.