Pierre Coffin Quotes

To be honest, writing comics is a dream come true - the form is unparalleled and is home to some of the most original and innovative storytelling around.

We relate comics to the main super-heroes, but it's a great medium through which all sorts of stories are told.

All of the characters at Marvel were my ideas, but the ideas meant nothing unless I had somebody who could illustrate it.

The reason I love comics and have collected them for 37 years is because I always wanted to be an illustrator and a writer - and comics are really the perfect blend of those two mediums.

I love writing novels, but there is something deeply invigorating about the comic-book medium.

To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.

I tend to like writing long stories in comics. I worked on 'Flash,' 'Teen Titans' and 'JSA' for years. I always like diving into characters.

We grew out of the superhero comics, but we still liked comics, so we started putting our own experiences in the stories we were doing for our own amusement.

I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason and one reason only: I love comics. I love the form, the structure, the storytelling process, I love everything about it.

All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.

I love comics and have since I was a kid. That is what gave me the idea to create my own.

Graphic novels are such a visually creative world - it's really interesting what they can do in one sketch. Now I'm hooked.

I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.

I never thought I would work in mainstream superhero comics or Valiant or Marvel. I just set out to make the kinds of stories I wanted to make, which at the beginning was small personal stuff like 'Essex County.'

I've read comics all my life and have wanted to write a comic for as long as I can remember. Alex Barnaby and Sam Hooker seemed like the perfect team to make the move into the graphic medium.

I understand the visual media very well, as I used to write comic books for Walt Disney, and I've written a graphic novel. How you carry a story in pictures is different than how you do it in text.

I grew up really into comic books, and I actually thought I was going to be a comic-book artist. That was my ambition before I realized I couldn't keep characters looking the same from panel to panel.

Writing a comic book series, you're so reliant on whoever the artist is. It truly is collaboration.

I'm not ashamed of comic books. You have some people that are like, 'We're trying to elevate comic books.' Comic books have always told great dramatic stories.

People underestimate the complexity of comic books.

I just love the comics industry.

The most impactful comics that I've read are the ones where the artists swung for the bleachers and tried to immerse you in their world.

Being able to work in comics at all - I know I came into it from a different medium, but I'd like to stay here. It's not like a weird touristy thing for me.

Comics are actually a lot more difficult to read than I thought they would be. After my second 'Deadpool' comic, I kind of gave up.

I was hired to do as many Boy Commando, Newsboy Legion, and Sandman stories as I could.