Perhaps there is nothing greater on earth than the sacrifice of youth and beauty, often of high birth, made by the gentle sex in order to work in hospitals for the relief of human misery, the sight of which is so revolting to our delicacy. Peoples se...
I'm guess I'm up to about 70% of normal, which is a real relief. My doctor gave me clearance to go out in public again, so I've been able to go to the store and help out a little bit around the house.
Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Gogh Jr.
Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.
When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved... we didn't have anyone standing over us.
I'm an avid reader. Novels, non-fiction, comics, it doesn't matter. Best way in the world to feed your head.
Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.
A stand-up comic is judged by every line. Singers get applause at the end of their song no matter how bad they are.
I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films.
I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.
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 really wanted to do things that weren't comic. It felt like finding people who can see this other side to me.
As a brunette, I had previously been this serious actress. Then I became a blonde and got to play a completely different, comic role.
It's a cliche, but it's true that all the fun lies in baddies, grotesques and comic roles.
When you say 'comic book' in America, people think of Mickey Mouse, and Archie. It has a connotation of juvenile.
I have the show because I'm insecure. It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.
I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
We like to make the Marvel comics films because they're fun. Families can go see them together. They're entertaining. They aspire to inspire, and that is cool.
I've seen other comics, with great pleasure, watching their own specials, and I don't know how or why they do it.
I think a lot of great male comic actors are introspective, quiet personalities, which I really admire. But they are really able to turn it up when the camera's on.
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
