Quotes About Expression

For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.

I was born a comic.

I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.

I am a 'made' cartoonist, but I was born a comic.

Nothing is harder to create than brilliant comic ballets, except maybe brilliant full-evening comic ballets.

I didn't want to be known as a gay comic, but as a comic who happens to be gay.

There's so many good comic actors that you just take the best of and try and run with it yourself. Try and bring a little bit of yourself to it, too.

The most labor-intensive part of putting together a comic is the drawing.

No actor can be a complete artist without trying his/her hand at comic roles.

I feel like there are comic book artists who are comic book artists, and then there's comic book artists who are cartoonists.

All of the stuff I can't afford to do on a TV budget, I just put into the comic book because you're really only limited in a comic by your artist's imagination.

There's something about the comic book genre that I think is so cool and artsy and unique. It's not like anything else.

I still feel it's kind of weird to say, 'I'm a comic book writer.'

I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.

Comic books were just the means for me to tell the story.

Art was a way for me to express myself and for me to also escape because it was tough growing up as a child. We didn't have a lot of money. I was always creating. I was writing stories. I was doing comic books. I made my own universe.

Comics have always been storyboards.

All the pictures I could never do, I'll do it in comics. All the comics I do are the pictures I could never do.

Anyone should be able to read comics.

So many comics have such low self-esteem.

For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States.

That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.

It's very hard for a woman in comedy. It's hard for women to be bold and not care what anyone, particularly men, think. Maybe that is why so many women comics are lesbians.

You know, comics were created at the same time as the cinema. And the cinema very quickly became a major art. Cartooning didn't become a major art. There's a reason for that. People don't know how to deal with drawings.