Any comic like myself owes everything he has to Lenny Bruce. He was the originator. The godfather of uncensored American stand-up is clearly Lenny Bruce.
One of the things that appealed to me most about comics was that you can pick the ones you like and build your own personal pantheon.
When I get into collecting things, I get a little obsessive. Which is why when I start buying comics, I buy way too many, and I have to stop myself.
I don't think there's hardly a comic out there that does clean material all the way around. There's a couple of guys that are clean, but I'm not one of them.
Comics is all about making it believable and helping people to get completely lost in a fictional world.
As a comic, I think I'm very verbally oriented about a lot of the stuff that I've written or thought up and how I say it.
When I first heard of it, I thought it was a horror film. 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles' is such a strange name. I wasn't into the comic books at all.
Whatever I write, no matter how gray or dark the subject matter, it's still going to be a comic novel.
At DC Comics, it has been a top priority that DC forges a meaningful, forward-looking digital strategy.
I have to say, self-servingly, I downloaded my own comics. I downloaded 'Batman: Hush.'
I was into comics because these were my real male role models, even though at the time, I didn't know it.
Even though I was trained in play writing and screenwriting, when I sat down to write a comic book for the first time, Alan Moore was first and foremost in my mind.
When I was auditioning for 'Gotham,' I got a handful of comics from different decades, so I had a perspective - it's been around for 75 years, which is a long time.
Dame Edna is that rarest sighting in our time of the absolute comic, an inspired personification of caprice whose comedy answered the primal call to take the audience for a tumble.
Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.
When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.
Uncle Les: She's history! I know what to do, I've read the comics! Total... bodily... dismemberment!
Mark Van Doren: Cheating on a quiz show? That's sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.
Jim Stark: You know something? You read too many comic books.
Woody is the guy who made me want to be a comic. I was in heaven and couldn't stop smiling because he was my idle and 29 years after seeing Take the Money and Run, I was working for him.
Such is the nature of comic strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Typically, the end result is lazy, rich cartoonists.
