Joe Madureira Quotes

The real power of comics is writing as you draw.

When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.

Comics don't work without the visuals, obviously.

I've always preferred comics that really rely on visual storytelling. It's what makes comics special. Otherwise, you're better off reading a novel.

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

After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there's no better place for new ideas than comics.

Comics were a place where captivating images lit your imagination and showed you that you can create new kinds of people and worlds.

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

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.

Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story.

Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out.

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

I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.

My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.

Comics have always been storyboards.

Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can't do, and vice versa.

Comics don't work if the story is all in the text and the images are illustrative. It's hard to have enough faith in the artists to allow them to do their job.

The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of.

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.

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

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.

The graphic novel form really interests me and I like the freedom that format offers.

Comics are words and pictures. You can do anything with words and pictures.

Movies are movement. A comic-book is immobility. From one still picture to another, but no movement. You need to make the movement in your head. In the movies, you see the movement. It's different. What is the same is the mind of the creator.

I think the best thing I learned from drawing comics is that it's a great exercise in concision.