I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes.

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.

To me, families are fascinating. I choose to explore it through comedy and through comic situations.

We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are.

I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.

Dante didn't work out, and then we found Ryan. He worked at a comic, record and toy store in Fremont.

Alternative cartoonists have to rely on comic book stores to get their stuff in the hands of readers.

I tend to only read comics written by friends or people I've known. And I'm not a great comic reader.

If I wasn't a comic or TV star, I really wanted to be a photojournalist. That was my other dream job.

That's literally been a longtime dream of mine: to create a comic and an accompanying concept record.

I get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.

Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.

Dennis the Menace was probably the most realistic comic book ever done. No space aliens ever invaded!

I think that there's got to be a comic gene in some way, but it's so much about it is how you grow up.

Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.

I didn't expect 'Scott Pilgrim' to be successful. I just made this weird comic to entertain my friends.

Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.

I think one of the hardest things to talk about as a comic is having money because it's so unrelatable.

I was kind of a Rickles comic to begin with. I was caustic, and I was abusive and mean to the audience.

I wasn't as big a comic book aficionado as some of my friends, but I definitely had some Batman comics.

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

I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married.

A comic matter cannot be expressed in tragic verse. [Lat., Versibus exponi tragicis res comica non vult.]

Trish "Patsy" Walker is just one of my favorite characters and she was a big comic character in the '40s.

I've keep every comic I've bought in my life. I used to be obsessive about boarding and bagging them all.

When I did Comic Relief, I did it to be on the show; it's a badge of honor as a comedian to do that show.

Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.

I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time.

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.

I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as it can be.

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

Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

I like to play the comic relief or parts that aren't necessarily comedic but that I can find the comedy in.

One of the exciting things about producing a comic is seeing the artist stamp his own interpretation on it.

A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.

I find it hard to get enthusiastic about hotels because, as a touring comic, I spend a lot of time in them.

I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.

One of the key characteristics of the comic book medium is that it is not brought to life by just one voice.

I'd love to do comedy. And I think I have pretty good sense of comic timing, so I'd really like to try that.

Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.

There was a time, as a young comic book reader, that I would have proclaimed 'Deadworld' my favorite series.

You know, comics and movies, even if you take a comic and turn it into a movie, we can't all be Joss Whedon.

Nothing is harder to create than brilliant comic ballets, except maybe brilliant full-evening comic ballets.

You know, I've never been a comic book person, just because that's not my gig and I don't have a television.

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

'Blade Runner' was a comic strip. It was a comic strip! It was a very dark comic strip. Comic metaphorically.

I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.

We all know showbiz isn't easy, but being a comic - especially being a female comic - can be quite punishing.

I'm constantly trying to mine the DNA of John Constantine and stay true to that character in the comic books.

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