Gilbert Hernandez Quotes

I grew up with my uncle's comic books at my grandma's house, so I've always loved my comic book reading.

I came to one of the first Comic Cons in 1985, when it was just people trading back issues of comic books.

I love comic books and always did as a kid.

I was a big comic book fan from 13 on.

I stole comic books from my brother when I was a kid, but I was never like an avid fan. I can't claim to be like a comic book geek.

I still love comic books. When you have a kid, that's an excuse to keep reading all the comic books.

The comic book fans, especially 'X-Men' fans, are so serious about their comic book.

The first comic book I ever bought, I was in third grade. It was 'Avengers,' I think, #240. I grew up in Kansas City. And I walked into a 7-11. I had seen, like, 'The Hulk' TV series. I knew about comic book heroes. I knew about it, but I hadn't actually had a physical comic in my hands until that time. And it was a big deal for me.

I never was a big comic book fan. Obviously I'd heard them growing up from my friends who did read them, but I never was a big comic book reader.

I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic.

Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

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 wasn't a comic book aficionado at all when I was a kid, but my cousin Weed was. Every time we went to visit him on the farm, he had two really fun things: comedy albums and comic books.

I wasn't a comic book geek as a kid. I read some, but it was just like, 'Oh, I have this comic book here.' It wasn't like I was collecting them.

Yes! I am big comic book geek. I can't live without them.

I'm not the monthly comic guy, and I never really have been.

I grew up one of three girls, and none of them were into comic books, so I wasn't exposed to that world.

Inside the magic of the comic book universe, it's just people to people, unguarded humanity overlapping and just getting to interact. The way we get our verdict is going to these conventions.

Being into comic books is definitely an Americana thing.

When I meet thousands of fans of the comic - when I realize every one of them can recite the Lantern Corps oath ('In Brightest Day, in blackest night...') - I know how important this is to people.

Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.

I didn't see a lot of comic books growing up.

I still collect comics. I still have a great love and respect for the genre.

Print and digital comics will always coexist.