The comics I hate are thieves. Nothing's more disgusting than a guy who steals another person's ideas and tries to claim them as his own.
People still go to Comic-Con because they love comics.
And as a stand-up comic, that's the one thing I'm a little uncomfortable with. I'm not uncomfortable with sincerity in my regular life, but, like in terms of my product that I offer, I think that it's weird, because comics used to be way more sincere in the '80s.
When I started out, some women comics were jealous of other women comics, thinking, "If she gets "The Tonight Show," I can't. " My philosophy always was, "If she did, I can too. "
I'm 44 now and have been working in comics for most of my adult life. I've been blessed to have had the career that I've had and worked with the many awesome creators I have.
I'm a comic geek, I love playing video games and I love reading comics.
Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
Comedy is a great tool. We [comics] are trying to find ways to use humor to enlighten people without preaching to them.
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.
I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.
What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.
I would make a comic for Rolling Stone every two weeks, because they're biweekly. And then I would make weekly comics for my weekly papers. It was on two parallel tracks. And then they all got collected in a book.
They are not testing comics for drugs. If our job is dependent on that, there would be three working comics in the country, and two of them would have puppets.
I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't understand their comedy or their sensibility.
I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.
I feel like I understood the language of comics. I had a real fluidity with that medium at a very early age.
Not everyone reads comics, although most people know the major superheroes, but the majority of people play video games.
I'd been a fanatic of movies since I was a wee lad, so I got into the films before I got into the comics.
I love to be able to support other women comics.
I used to read comics when I was a kid.