Jason Reynolds Quotes

I was never a big comic book fan. I was always more into the baseball cards.

I never felt ostracized or made to feel strange by obsessing over 'The Onion' or 'Calvin and Hobbes.' That was considered completely normal.

I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it.

I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd.

I have one brother who's five years older than me and he was a huge part of my childhood.

I was not a comic book kid.

I was not an avid comic book reader as a kid.

I love comic books. Since I was a kid, I've collected them.

I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic.

I wasn't as big a comic book aficionado as some of my friends, but I definitely had some Batman comics.

Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.

I remember being a little kid sitting in the living room with my brother and some friends from around the neighborhood, and I would sit at the piano and as they were running around the room doing different things and being silly, acting out, I would actually play the score for it - the music that went along with it.

Tintin comics evoke Bermuda, where my parents doled out comics for good behavior and my grandmother taught me how to shuffle cards.

I grew up being very interested in Greek mythology because my mum read to my sister and I.

My older brother took me to Woody Allen double features when I was still teething.

It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.

I first fell in love with comedy when I'd visit my granny as a kid. Trips to her house meant staying up late drinking Coca-Cola and watching 'Saturday Night Live'.

I've been a fan of the Marvel Universe since I was a little child.

I was obsessed with 'Ghostbusters.'

'Fan' is an understatement. I had the Spider-Man costume, I had bed sheets, toys, you name it. I've always had an argument with my best friend that Spider-Man was way better than Batman. I was a massive fan growing up.

When I was a kid, my mother used to drive my father to work in Indianapolis, and I would see, practically every day of my young life, a huge Phillips 66 sign. So it is the red and green of that sign against the blue Hoosier sky. The blue in the 'Love' is cerulean. Therefore, my 'Love' is an homage to my father.

I grew up with my uncle's comic books at my grandma's house, so I've always loved my comic book reading.

I wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books.

My brother is about six years older, and I've always looked up to him.

I reckon I had 30 Spider-Man costumes over the years since I was a little baby. I had Spider-Man bed sheets.