Marc Maron Quotes

Good comics stick around. There are people who have TV shows that might be successful, but comics can't really fake it. If you say, 'Hey, I love what you guys are doing - you're funny,' then you're in. It's legit.

The people who worked in comics were terrific guys. I had a good association with them, and I enjoyed comics for that very reason.

Some people are worried about the future of comics and some people are busy building it. That latter group are my heroes.

Inside the magic of the comic book universe, it's just people to people, unguarded humanity overlapping and just getting to interact. The way we get our verdict is going to these conventions.

With comics, you always talk about a big break, but there are a lot of big breaks in your life and not one of them makes a big difference.

Print and digital comics will always coexist.

When I was a young artist, I liked and was interested in belonging to the mainstream comics group. I didn't introduce myself as an author, but only as a designer.

As lifelong fans of comic books, Dan Didio and myself, we definitely have our own takes on what make for successful comics and the kind of comics that we want to publish.

Frank Miller and David Mack are incredible artists.

I broke into comics by working as a press reporter for the industry, for a trade press in comics, and reporting on events and reporting on books and so forth, and I got to know some of the editors at DC Comics in the mid-'80s.

At the end of the '60s, I was trying to enter the world of comics.

Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.

I'm very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry.

There are a lot of people in the medium who came and got into the industry and work in the industry, and these are people who were raised on comics and loved comics. Comics are their religion. To such an extent, that they don't know anything else.

I come to Comic-Con in San Diego because this is where those fans are - those to whom I owe the longevity of my career.

There's tons of people doing awesome things with comics online - I'm just one dude!

What's happened is that every time I go to a convention or go into a comic book shop is that people drag me off into a corner and beat me up and go, 'When are you going to do Batman again?'

I just love the comics industry.

Maybe the best comics are written by people who really are at ease in the comic world.

Look, there's no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years, and for someone like me who's always tried to make a living at it, it's been great, I'm very grateful for it. But at the same time, it's not a subculture-y thing anymore; it's something that's in the New York Times and the New Yorker.

I have a suspicion - I have to be careful what I say - that you might actually find the best comics actually written by people who are comics writers and who aren't setting out to do graphic novels.

The lovely thing about writing comics for so many years is that comics is a medium that is mistaken for a genre. It's not that there are not genres within comics, but because comics tend to be regarded as a genre in itself, content becomes secondary; as long as I was doing a comic, people would pick it up.

I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in.

I came to one of the first Comic Cons in 1985, when it was just people trading back issues of comic books.

When I meet thousands of fans of the comic - when I realize every one of them can recite the Lantern Corps oath ('In Brightest Day, in blackest night...') - I know how important this is to people.