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.
I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lameness, the scarred Byronic hero.
If you look at the common denominator of all the comics who have had big success, it's being true to their nature... that's what takes a long time to learn.
There's a lot of comics writers out there whose work I appreciate and who are nice guys. I really want to work with guys I really respect and enjoy.
I didn't read comic books, growing up. I was more of a science fiction/fantasy novel guy. I loved reading Edgar Rice Burroughs' 'Tarzan' and that kind of stuff.
I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic.
