Illustrated Story Quotes

I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called 'The Package', and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.

A typical twenty-page short story would work quite well as a graphic novel. A single graphic novel of maybe 120 pages would condense down into a short story quite nicely.

I think with something like 'Watchmen' you can genuinely call that a graphic novel because it has the weight and the intent of a proper novel and it also is the complete story.

That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics.

I always overwrite - really awful, long bits of script - and then I trim it down to the bare bones and then add a little bit to colour it in. At the end of all of my stories, I test for wordless comprehension. So I remove the text and see if it works by itself. And if it does, I feel that that's a successful story.

When you hold a graphic novel in your hands, you're holding artist blood made ink.

I'm kind of a graphic novel ambassador.

Comics are a wonderful form. You can do so much with it.

I am a big fan of the web comic 'Strong Female Protagonist,' illustrated by Molly Ostertag.

One of my favorite graphic novels of all time is Grant Morrison's 'Earth-2.'