Molly Crabapple Quotes

Some graphic narrative art presses against the panel: you wrestle with it at the level of the paper.

Comic-strip artists generally have very modest ambitions. Day to day, we labor to fit together all these little moving parts - a character or two, a few lines of dialogue, framing, pacing, payoff - but we certainly don't think of them adding up over time to some larger portrait of our times.

Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the dynamic you find in comics.

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.

The real power of comics is writing as you draw.

Comics are a wonderful form. You can do so much with it.

The language in a comic book or a graphic novel and the cinematographic language are really not the same language. They are false brother and sister. It's not at all the same.

Comic strip is almost like music on a page that you perform in your mind. It's not just pictures. There's a particular rhythm and structure to it that is unlike anything else. It literally is like music. You hear it in your mind as you read it.

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

You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.

The most labor-intensive part of putting together a comic is the drawing.

One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice.

I've done illustration on the side. But other than that, comics have been my main things.

I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.

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.

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.

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.

You can write a script, but that's just a starting point as a cartoonist. The heart of the process comes when you start to draw it, and you work out how to lay the page out, how best to tell the story.

The text illustrates the pictures - it provides a connective tissue for me. I usually refine the text last, partly because pictures are harder to do, so it's easier to edit words - I use text as grout in between the tiles of the pictures.

Writing a graphic novel is hard. It feels closer to a screen play than to a novel.

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

I think the graphic novel form works, in practice, a lot differently from watching a movie. You can put it down and pick it back up whenever you want - something you can't do in a theater.

To be an animator you have to be able to tell stories but I'm not very verbal - I definitely do it through pictures.

The best moments in comics come from a primal image that captures the emotion and the conflict. What you add are the pieces that get you to the point and what happens next.