Glenn Danzig Quotes

To me, I was always just standing on the sidelines because up until issue 50, we were just doing Spawn. I wasn't recruiting anybody because I didn't have any books for people to work on.

I still do some inking here and there and I've actually got a book that I'm going to ink entirely.

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.

I love creator-owned comics. Most of my favorite books these days are creator-owned, from stuff DC publishes, like 'Fables,' to books like 'Saga,' 'Fatale,' 'Hellboy,' and 'Courtney Crumrin.'

Ever since I'm done with Zim everyone thinks that I'm going to go back to comics. I've been flooded with emails asking me if I'm working on the new Johnny over and over again.

I have to say, self-servingly, I downloaded my own comics. I downloaded 'Batman: Hush.'

I grew up on monthly comics. My closet is full of monthly comics. I've always wanted to do a monthly comic, and while I've had a couple of offers, the timing has never worked out. Most superhero comics come into the world as monthly series, so we wanted the same for 'The Shadow Hero.'

We can't really make a living doing comic books, despite the fact that would be an awfully fun way to make a living.

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.'

DC used to print up all of their pages, they were the only company that did it.

I'm never one to care too much if my work becomes adapted; I make comic books.

I've always been apprehensive about doing comic books, period.

'The Great Comic Book Artists' is about three score of the best practitioners of graphic story art.

I love working at Marvel, but it was definitely DC that got me hooked as a reader.

I've always liked the tradition of publishing work serially in the comic-book 'pamphlet' format and then collecting that work in book form, so I've just stuck with it.

My view is that comic books are meant to be long-form stories. They're meant to be novels.

I didn't read comics, growing up. I watched a lot of movies, and those were my comic books. And then, my exposure really increased by becoming affiliated with Spider-Man.

The extraordinary thing about comic books and graphic novels is that they cannot exist without the art. If my words disappeared tomorrow, well, whatever. This is a visual medium in which the eye and the mind work together to bear witness to story, to lives.

I'm really happiest living life 22 pages at a time and putting things in little boxes on pages.

I just noticed I've been writing lots of female-led things. Two of them haven't been announced yet, but the big Greg Capullo book I'm doing is a female-led story, and I'm doing another series with John Romita which is a female-led story as well.

I love comic books. I was weaned on them, so it's not like it's a stretch for me, but I have other interests, as well.

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.

Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction.

The comic book industry has turned into the wellspring for all of these movies that are all based on the comic books.

Our hope is that the elementary reading of comics will lead to the joy of reading good books.