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My favorite comics show the real-life struggles of heroes as well as the fantastical.
It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing.
Portraying Alex Summers, I want to look as athletic as his character is in the comics.
What's really great about the Archie Comics as a whole is that everybody is relatable.
The comics were not only stories to enjoy; for me they were drawings that possessed me.
I think there's too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques.
I have to say, self-servingly, I downloaded my own comics. I downloaded 'Batman: Hush.'
There's Dick Van Dyke and John Ritter, the two greatest physical comics of our generation.
We are, in the comics, the last frontier of good, wholesome family humor and entertainment.
I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.
I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.
Comics deal with fundamental archetypes. We've been called the myth-makers of the modern age.
With comics you can put interesting and solid information in a format that's pretty palatable.
And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say.
Really, it hasn't changed for female comics; it's still hard for females to really enter the game.
That's the thing about TV: it gives you so much time to tell your story; it's comparable to comics.
Marvel comics took a chance on me in my youth, allowing me to create so many toys in their sandbox.
I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.
I always like to watch comics and it's interesting that you can tell if someone's funny in 10 seconds.
I have always loved Las Vegas. It's a traditional place for lounge comics to perform, and I love that.
It's funny: wrestlers and comics bond over remembering their best shows and their absolute worst shows.
At DC Comics, it has been a top priority that DC forges a meaningful, forward-looking digital strategy.
I'd been a fanatic of movies since I was a wee lad, so I got into the films before I got into the comics.
I'm hard-pressed to say that anything I do in my comics is intentional. But that is a stupid thing to say.
I'm very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry.
I try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.
I was being laughed at. I hated it, so I made an adjustment to control the situation. All comics learn that.
I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doing in comics.
Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
I used to read comics as a kid, and now I'm reading them for research. It's great fun. It's not bad homework.
I'd love to play Venom. I'm a huge 'Spider-Man' fan, and Venom was the character that drew me into the comics.
There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.
It wasn't until I booked the role of Cyborg that I was sent literally everything Cyborg-related from DC comics.
We relate comics to the main super-heroes, but it's a great medium through which all sorts of stories are told.
I've seen other comics, with great pleasure, watching their own specials, and I don't know how or why they do it.
Most comics worship music on some level. It's more rock-n-roll to get up there for an hour and make people laugh.
I looked at comics like a buffet table, where you take a little bit of something and leave the other stuff behind.
Great Canadian comics are often outsiders and insiders at the same time. That's a great perspective for a comedian.
Comics, for me, is being able to sing alone in the shower. I find it freeing. You just pick up a pen and get to it.
Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!
There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.
But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube.
When I would read the 'Archie' comics when I was younger, I was rooting for Betty and Archie way over any alternative.
We don't apologize for a joke. We are comics. We are here to make you laugh. If you don't get it, then don't watch us.
My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, where they are safe.
I think a lot of the things in my life that I become most passionate about, and most excited about, are all from comics.
Not everyone reads comics, although most people know the major superheroes, but the majority of people play video games.
Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.
People think comedians don't do drama. Comics are drama. And what is drama, as opposed to comedy? It's all the same to me.