Illustrated Stories Quotes

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

The 'Barnaby' books were always intended to be graphic novels.

I really like Greg Rucka's work. I loved 'Lazarus,' and I loved 'Stumptown.'

'100 Bullets' is probably my favorite thing, ever. It's pretty close with early 'Hellboy' stuff.

I love graphic novels - I love reading them, I enjoyed writing them, I would love to go back and do them again. I hope I'm savvy enough to do them in the right way.

You know, I read graphic novels but not encyclopedically.

I always loved comic books and I'm still a great fan of the graphic novel.

Comics are cool. I read 'Batman' and 'Spawn'.

Comics have always been storyboards.

As a small kid, I came across things like these early Edward Gorey books in department-store bookstores. These were these really unusual objects to me. I didn't know how they fit into the comic world or into newspaper comics.

'The Invisibles' by Grant Morrison is my favorite series of all time.

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.

From 'The Sandman' and 'Black Orchid' to 'Whatever Happened to the Caped Crusader?,' Neil Gaiman has provided some of the most memorable stories of the comic book industry.

Telling stories with visuals is an ancient art. We've been drawing pictures on cave walls for centuries. It's like what they say about the perfect picture book. The art and the text stand alone, but together, they create something even better. Kids who need to can grab onto those graphic elements and find their way into the story.

I grew up with probably three different authors having a seminal influence on my childhood, Dr. Seuss being one and Maurice Sendak being another. That was my parents, who exposed me to their stories. That's how I was introduced to the whole idea of not just reading, but storytelling in general.

Leslie Stein's comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders.

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.'

There are some short stories in R. Crumb comics that are just wonderful and touch me in ways no other comics do.

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.

My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.

I read comics because of the art.

Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older.

Growing up, I didn't have any comic books, at all. But my friend had a trunk full of them, so comic books were like candy for me. I would go over to his house for a sleep-over, and I would just be devouring everything I could get my hands on. I knew the sleep-over was going to be over, and I was going to go back to my house and it was going to be Kipling.

We relate comics to the main super-heroes, but it's a great medium through which all sorts of stories are told.