Lee Bermejo Quotes

My first influences were superhero artists.

It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.

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

Comics have always been storyboards.

Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.

I read comics because of the art.

If I open a Batman book, and he doesn't look right, I can't do it. It has so much to do with the art.

As a fan and collector of 'MAD' magazines as a kid, I am well aware that my art is unworthy. I remain in absolute awe of 'MAD' artist Mort Drucker and loved Wally Wood and Harvey Kurtzman and Al Jaffee and Don Martin and Angelo Torres and Peter Kuper and Sergio Aragones.

I'm a big fan of 'Deadpool,' and Rob Liefeld masterpieces are among the other great comic creators and characters.

You know, comics were created at the same time as the cinema. And the cinema very quickly became a major art. Cartooning didn't become a major art. There's a reason for that. People don't know how to deal with drawings.

I feel like there are comic book artists who are comic book artists, and then there's comic book artists who are cartoonists.

There are so many versions of Batman that I love so much from different artists that I had to almost stop trying to draw those versions and get past that and just draw the Jeff Lemire version of Batman eventually.

I've always had a soft spot for comic books.

And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client.

Wonder Woman is a lot of fun to draw.

As a kid, I was a big comic fan and I liked foreign comics as well.

Comics are so full of amazing work. And I can't look at a drawing of a woman without thinking of, for instance, Wallace Wood and his amazing way of capturing beauty.

Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out.

For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.

Obviously, I love superheroes; I love comic book characters, but I... I guess I've had a lifelong affection for comics, and while I love the characters so much, I also love the medium.

Gene Colan was like no other artist of his generation. His ability to create dramatic, multi-valued tonal illustrations using straight India ink and board was unparalleled.

I ended up reading comics and just started drawing at a very young age. By high school, I was putting together longer stories. In college, I started doing strips for the newspaper and doing mini-comics. It sort of grew in scope and scale over time.

But to me what seems to be missing in a lot of portfolios is Cartooning.

Wouldn't want to write the X-Men, and I suppose the X-Men is the ultimate Marvel comic, and I really wouldn't want to go anywhere near it at all, although on the other had I wouldn't mind having a crack at something like the Punisher.

The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.