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 have to confess I'm not a huge comics fan in the wider sense of comics as an art form.
The people who worked in comics were terrific guys. I had a good association with them, and I enjoyed comics for that very reason.
I really wasn't into comic books growing up.
I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.
I'm a massive comic book fan. I was buying weekly installments of "The Watchmen", and "From Hell", and "Parallax" and "Johnny Nemo". I was a huge comic book fan as a kid and I still am. Me and my youngest son are both comic book nerds together; make models and stuff.
At any comic book convention in America, you'll find aspiring cartoonists with dozens of complex plot ideas and armloads of character sketches. Only a small percentage ever move from those ideas and sketches to a finished book.
The comic book fans, especially 'X-Men' fans, are so serious about their comic book.
I'm a big comic book geek and I've been reading comic books since pretty much since I was five or six in 1971 or something like that. So, I mean, I read it all and there's certainly a lot of different iterations of Superman that I personally have enjoyed more than others.
I grew up with my uncle's comic books at my grandma's house, so I've always loved my comic book reading.
Over the years, I have attended comic book conventions and met people that are die-hard fans; they'll come up and say, 'Clue' is my favorite movie of all time.' It has definitely resonated in some way with people and just continued to build up over the years considerably.
I still love comic books. When you have a kid, that's an excuse to keep reading all the comic books.
Comics are a gateway drug to literacy.
I think comics will always be around. I think there's something nice about a comic book. People love to hold 'em, turn the pages, fold 'em up, roll 'em up, stick 'em in their back pocket, show 'em to a friend, and say, "Hey, look at this."
With comics, you always talk about a big break, but there are a lot of big breaks in your life and not one of them makes a big difference.
When I started writing comics, 'comics writer' was the most obscure job in the world! If I wanted to be a celebrity, I would have become a moody English screen actor.
Look, I had a passion for comic books growing up.
I've loved comics since I was a kid, collected them, I've always dreamed of being involved in comics.
For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.
I love comic books and always did as a kid.
I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic.
I'm not the monthly comic guy, and I never really have been.
I think when it comes to comics, I've been a lifelong comic book fan.
I mean, I love Comic-Con.
I come to Comic-Con in San Diego because this is where those fans are - those to whom I owe the longevity of my career.
