Berkeley Breathed Quotes

Comics fans want new stuff that looks exactly like the old stuff. It is hard for the publishers, and even the audience, to change something.

Print and digital comics will always coexist.

I grew up when comics were only sold in food markets and news stands, so the direct market is vital to me. The best way to make it stronger is if everybody buys my comics in multiple copies before they buy any others.

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 think, for the most part, comics have devolved into fantasy for the sake of fantasy.

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.

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

Things improved a little bit in the '80s; there was kind of a revival of alternative comics, but then they went downhill in the '90s.

I could go through a lot of my old emails from when I first started doing comics. Back then the lowest age of fans was like 15 or 16 up to people in their 20's and 30's.

The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable.

In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special.

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.

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.

Though to the average person that you'll meet on an airplane, if you tell them you draw comics, they'll still have sort of the same response - not like that's seeped into the culture at large, that comics are not just for kids.

I remember the dark days when, thanks to 1966's 'Batman' with Adam West, comics were considered the ugly stepchild of popular culture.

The direct market has evolved into a machine that is very good at selling corporate-owned superhero titles published by two main companies: DC and Marvel.

I think it's good that we're not embarrassed that we're comic book creators anymore. It's good that people are able to make a good living at doing it, and not doing the traditional sort of mainstream fare.

For a long time, I was under the impression that 'Terry and the Pirates' was the best comic strip in the United States.

I think comics have far more potential than a lot of people realize.

Right from the outset, the prevailing mindset in British comics fandom was a radical and progressive one. We were all proto-hippies, and we all thought that comics would be greatly improved if everything was a bit psychedelic like Jim Steranko.

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.

Despite all the criticisms that have been leveled at the comics community, both in terms of fans and creators, I have always felt more comfortable and accepted in the comics community than I have in any other medium of publishing that I've had the pleasure of working in.

Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer.

If Portland can truly have a true comics show that doesn't become a media show but retains its focus on comics, I think it's going to serve the city well. If this becomes a big show, it's going to bring in a lot of money for the city.

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