I created 'Captain Underpants' when I was in the second grade. I was constantly getting in trouble for being the class clown, so my teacher sent me out into the hallway to punish me. It was there in the hall that I began drawing 'Captain Underpants'....
The difference between 'Watchmen' and a normal comic book is this: With 'Batman's Gotham City,' you are transported to another world where that superhero makes sense; 'Watchmen' comes at it in a different way, it almost superimposes its heroes on you...
I had no desire to be a stand-up comic until I decided to do it.
I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips.
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.
We all know showbiz isn't easy, but being a comic - especially being a female comic - can be quite punishing.
Some novel lovers have no interest in comics, and some comics fans would never take the time to read a novel.
I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen years I wanted to draw underground comics.
All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.
...teaching is, after all, a form of show business.
Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
Comedy is a distortion of what is happening, and there will always be something happening.
Thankfully, perseverance is a great substitute for talent.
Being busy is different from taking action.
I remember my comic strips being called 'new wave.' It bugged me.
A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing such silly things; you'd say, 'That's what a child would do.'
You can't teach someone to be funny, but you can teach comic timing. If you listen to a good comic, you can learn how to put it on a page.
Some of my earliest work was in comics. I tend to think in pictures and always like to write scenes possessing the dynamic you find in comics.
I’m feeling a low regarding writing. I sometimes think I should finish working on my book of stripper poetry that I started, but other times I feel like it’s not worth it. Sometimes I think I should work on my comic book idea, and then other time...
Bastian: I know books, I have 186 of them at home. Mr. Koreander: Ah, comic books. Bastian: No, I've read Treasure Island, The Last of the Mohicans, Wizard of Oz, Lord of the Rings, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Tarzan. Mr. Koreander: Whoa whoa whoa,...
I sneaked out to his house a couple times in the middle of the night to watch over him while he slept, just in case, I dont know, his comic book collection decided to spontaneously combust. This was dumb and admittedly creepy in an Edward Cullen kind...
