I'm a comic geek, I love playing video games and I love reading comics.
Here's a tip for all you aspiring young comics: Don't beat up the customers. It is very difficult to get laughs from an audience when you've actually drawn blood from one of their number. It kills the mood.
Black comics, they only watch Black comedians. You're a comedian; you're not just a Black comedian. You're a comedian. I try to get that through to everybody.
Now we are living in the age of comics as air
Anything really well-made has the effect of making you want to do what you do-better. Abrams has always made very beautiful books. It's exciting to see this same excellence applied to the presentation of comics. Abrams ComicArts shows comics are stepping out of vaudeville and into Carnegie Hall-but the Marx Brothers will always be welcome!
I don't think comics necessarily think in literary terms. There is an element of developing your stage persona and your comedic voice, but I don't think comics see it like a character in a novel.
I never liked my own species. On why so many of his comics are about animals, in an interview.
I don't think that people are necessarily going to films simply because they were adapted from comics, though I could be wrong. Comics aren't really misunderstood either, they've just been mostly silly for the past century, and those genre-centered stories have found their way into the movie theaters over the past couple of decades because a generation who grew up reading them has, well, grown up.
Like a lot of young people who wanted to be artists, comics were a gateway for me.
Comics are my first love, and I hate seeing an art form that I love suffer.
When I was a kid, I read comics. But when I saw how funny it was, and how wonderfully absurd, I said, "You know, I gotta do this. "
For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States
And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say
I'm very distanced from the comics industry. I love the comics medium, but I have no time for the industry.
At practically every level, the way I make comics is an act of improvising within structural boundaries. There's a rough plan, with a beginning, middle and an end, but how I get from one point to another is unknown at the outset, and a large part of what keeps me engaged. It's an exploration for me, and hopefully for the reader as well.
I read Superman comics when I was a kid.
I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction.
I was a Marvel guy. I started reading comics when I was a kid.
I think most other comics are like, "I'm going to do my fkin' act and that'll be that. " With me, it's like, "What if I forget my jokes? What if I can't pull it together? This is going to be a fking disaster!"
After ten years of toiling away in Hollywood, I realized that there's no better place for new ideas than comics.