I just like the comic book sensibility. If I can turn them into films and TV series, that's just icing on the cake.
I grew up on DC Comics, moral tales where the bad guys got their comeuppance. To me the gory panels or grotesque stuff just made me chuckle.
I was the youngest kid on my street, the youngest comic in the clubs. I always felt like I was playing catch-up. I was very angry.
I'm a schoolteacher. That's even worse than being an intellectual. Schoolteachers are not only comic, they're often cold and hungry in this richest land on earth.
I'm consciously aware, specifically with the comic book world, where there's a built-in fanbase. But, there's a little bit of leniency because there are a couple different universes.
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.
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.
