Ted Naifeh
Related LYDIA MILLET I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line wor... JEFFREY BROWN HARVEY PEKAR I've been reading comics since I was four. I used to get them when I would go grocery shopping w... JEFF LEMIRE I vividly remember my first 'Superman' comic, which my granddad bought me when I was about 7... DAVE GIBBONS WALTER MOSLEY I wasn't as big a comic book aficionado as some of my friends, but I definitely had some Batman ... ROBIN LORD TAYLOR JAMES GUNN CHRIS WARE TUCKER CARLSON I'm really inspired by the show 'Future Boy Conan' from the '70s. It's a really ... REBECCA SUGAR I think probably the first time I wanted to be an artist was when I was about six or seven years old... DAVE GIBBONS GEORGE A. ROMERO I grew up reading comics. I was primarily an 'X-Men' fan, but I definitely dressed up as Spi... JAKE EPSTEIN When I was a school kid, I used to read lots of comics. This started me on drawing. I would make my ... MARCEL DZAMA ANTHONY BOURDAIN MIKE BIRBIGLIA DANIEL CLOWES ADRIANNE PALICKI I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, bu... JONATHAN LETHEM I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art s... DAVE GIBBONS ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE BENJAMIN BRATT J. K. SIMMONS 'Comic book' has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So ... FRANK MILLER On 7 October 1909 E. D.Morel, head of the Congo Reform Association,wrote A. Conan Doyle, a member, t... HUNT HAWKINS BILL BURR I'm in a comic book now. That was cool. That's something that I'm still sorta reeling ab... RUTINA WESLEY Once I found out that I was playing 'Deathlok,' I unearthed my old comic book collection. I ... J. AUGUST RICHARDS I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young and got this idea that a gentleman shoul... JOHN DARNIELLE KARA WALKER My grandfather was a newspaper publisher and his paper had all the comics in NYC, so some of my earl... RICK MOODY GENE WILDER I grew up reading '2000 AD' and the occasional Transformers and GI Joe comic, but when I cou... BEN PEEK GREG BEHRENDT I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read. IDRIS ELBA Long before I was a writer, when I was just a haphazard reader and a dreamer of stories, I learnt ab... ANDREW O'HAGAN CHRISTOPHER WALKEN I'm a huge Marvel Comics fan, and I'm a huge 'Wolverine' fan, I like the 'X-Men&... JASON DAVID FRANK CHANDLER RIGGS I got cast on 'MADtv' as one of eight permanent cast members chosen from 8,000 comics who... ARTIE LANGE JIM LEE It was an unwritten law that black comics were not permitted to work white nightclubs. You could sin... DICK GREGORY I confess I didn't read the 'Green Arrow' comics before coming to play Shado. The comic ... CELINA JADE DANIEL CLOWES The cool thing about 'Sweet Tooth' is that you can bring influences from the underground and... JEFF LEMIRE DEAN KAMEN People, they think that animation is a style. Animation is just a technique. It's like, people, ... MARJANE SATRAPI SARAH VOWELL When I realized that people actually wrote comics, that it was a job people could do, I thought, ... KURT BUSIEK SUZANNE SOMERS Looking back, I realize my favorite stories weren't in books, they were in comics. On top of bei... JEFF KINNEY WILLIAM GADDIS ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Us comics guys tend to get really good at the things we draw a lot. I'm good at creepy old fores... TED NAIFEH BILL WATTERSON The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings b... NATE POWELL I never was really into comics as a child, and I think if you miss the boat when you're a kid, y... VICTORIA PRATT HARVEY PEKAR People think I have an interest in comics, but I'm only interested in comics from the '40s, ... TERRY ZWIGOFF B. B. KING I've always loved pinup art, and I've always enjoyed drawing women. I think it was a conscio... ADAM HUGHES In the beginning of the century, in 1900, the newspapers in this country began running comic strips,... WILL EISNER I was an enormous fan of Dan Slott's run, and John Byrne's run was a big deal for me. I foun... CHARLES SOULE Someone told me that there's a connection to Superman, that in an early edition of the Green Lan... GEOFFREY RUSH CHRISTINE PELOSI Then I abandoned comics for fine art because I had some romantic vision of being like Vincent Van Go... BILL GRIFFITH C. JOYBELL C. Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate... EDEN AHBEZ Comics is a powerful idea, but an idea that's been squandered, ignored and misunderstood for generat... SCOTT MCCLOUD I think it's the fact that I do something different and that I actually have some success with i... CARROT TOP SHAWN ASHMORE She thinks that it's very nice that she looks the same as Conan O'Brien because Conan O'Brien is so ... MARKKU JAASKELAINEN My mum is black, my dad is white, and when I was a teenager, people would say, 'So what are you?... FLEUR EAST DAVID LISS A good choreographer is one that's going to collaborate, teach, guide - everything. The wonderfu... MARK DACASCOS Honestly, I wasn't familiar with the whole DC comics world and the Batman world before I was par... CAMREN BICONDOVA STANA KATIC ADAM MCKAY I watch Jay. I watch 'Letterman'. I flip back and forth between 'Conan' and 'Let... WANDA SYKES Some stories aren’t black and white… C.J. ROBERTS NEWT GINGRICH ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER You and what army of snaggled toothed wine sots? MARVEL COMICS C. JOYBELL C. CAROL BURNETT Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like St... MICKEY SPILLANE RACHEL MCADAMS I grew up reading Updike. I remember being alarmed to find that he had published short stories by th... JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT DAVID HAREWOOD Comics are cool. I read 'Batman' and 'Spawn'. ANDREW LAWRENCE I didn't know the Green Lantern comics at all. I was a Superman reader. GEOFFREY RUSH I'm a big fan of 'Akira,' and I think comics are a great place to tell intelligent, fant... FINN JONES The deal with the Disney comics is to do stories and comics in a style that appeals to an older audi... DAN VADO ISSA RAE I had a few comics, but I was by no means a huge aficionado. I was more of a 'Mad Magazine,'... ROBIN LORD TAYLOR HA-JOON CHANG I loved Sherlock Holmes when I was younger. So you can imagine how excited I was to discover that Co... ALEXEI SMERTIN LADY GREGORY Comics is a great medium to get a lot of stories out. SERGIO ARAGONES
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me.... TED NAIFEH The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of ... TED NAIFEH I think all artists need to try to improve, or their work gets stale. TED NAIFEH When I first starting conceiving series like 'Courtney,' 'Polly,' 'How Loathsome... TED NAIFEH I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which t... TED NAIFEH I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesqu... TED NAIFEH Urban Fantasy is a subgenre pretty much designed for teenagers. It's pretty twee, but I adore it... TED NAIFEH I think there's too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques. TED NAIFEH Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention. TED NAIFEH I think one of the reasons Stephen King's stories work so well is that he places his stories in ... TED NAIFEH Basically, Urban Fantasy means D&D in New York. Ordinary people have no idea that they share the... TED NAIFEH Artists forget than the first purpose of a comic character is to convey emotion. Everything else, li... TED NAIFEH Some of the best art in the world is collaborative, a mix of voices that are stronger together than ... TED NAIFEH I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise tha... TED NAIFEH The living werewolves have genuine needs and desires, which, though they may oppose ours, are valid.... TED NAIFEH Us comics guys tend to get really good at the things we draw a lot. I'm good at creepy old fores... TED NAIFEH A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion. TED NAIFEH There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about child... TED NAIFEH When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on he... TED NAIFEH I think about 'The Simpsons,' which has been going on for 25 years. Homer is still in his la... TED NAIFEH TED ALLEN TED ALLEN TED CRUZ TED NUGENT I feel very confident in my skiing. I know I have a good chance to win any race I start. TED LIGETY Ski racing is probably the least guaranteed sport out there. It's really rare when the favorites... TED LIGETY A lot of racers have some of their best days when they're sick. TED LIGETY I wanted kids to know that it's cool to be in a ski race in the morning and to go play in the te... TED LIGETY It's the nature of the beast, playing sports on the ski team and how competitive all of us are. ... TED LIGETY When I grew up, I had a lot of fun ski racing with my friends. We pushed each other, and this made i... TED LIGETY There are definitely perks to being a good ski racer. TED LIGETY About the best thing an actor can do when all is said and done is to make people laugh. TED LEVINE I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge. TED LEVINE Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed... TED LEVINE TED LANGE TED LANGE TED LANGE TED LANGE TED LANGE TED LANGE TED LANGE TED LANGE TED LANGE TED LANGE I have to reinvent myself. TED KULONGOSKI Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks. TED KULONGOSKI I do not come bearing a party label on my sleeve - or a quick fix in my back pocket. I do not come w... TED KULONGOSKI As long as the sun rises over Ontario and sets over the Pacific, I will dedicate myself to bringing ... TED KULONGOSKI The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and i... TED KULONGOSKI The power to shape Oregon's future remains where it has always been - in our collective hands. TED KULONGOSKI Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right. TED KULONGOSKI It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our... TED KULONGOSKI I'm very comfortable with where history will judge me. TED KULONGOSKI A healthy environment is essential to a livable Oregon and a strong economy. TED KULONGOSKI I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films. TED KOTCHEFF I wanted to make Canadian films, and I ended up making American films. TED KOTCHEFF My plan was to stay in Canada to make films. TED KOTCHEFF Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what ... TED KOTCHEFF When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity. TED KOTCHEFF But when I direct I become possessed, a possession I've never quite understood. TED KOTCHEFF I'm not an easygoing guy as a director. TED KOTCHEFF I have a bad reputation for being temperamental. TED KOTCHEFF When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable. TED KOTCHEFF Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of ... TED KOTCHEFF TED KOPPEL TED KOPPEL TED KOPPEL TED KOPPEL TED KOPPEL TED KOPPEL TED KOPPEL TED KOPPEL TED KOPPEL TED KOPPEL TED KOPPEL TED KOPPEL TED KOPPEL TED KOPPEL There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard. TED KNIGHT Of course I could have retired anytime. But retiring would drive me crazy. TED KNIGHT People send me CDs all the time because I love music. It's great. I listen to them in my dressin... TED KING I got into music when I was a little boy. My dad was always into jazz. I got my education from him. ... TED KING I have tons of jazz records: John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Miles Davis. I could go on and on. TED KING I collect LPs, but only if they're pretty high quality. I don't go back and dig through the ... TED KING TED HUGHES TED HUGHES TED HUGHES We must expect to fail... but fail in a learning posture, determined no to repeat the mistakes, and ... TED ENGSTROM Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days. TED ENGSTROM The rewards for those who persevere far exceed the pain that must precede the victory. TED ENGSTROM What do you want to get done? In what order of importance? Over what period of time? What is the tim... TED ENGSTROM Anything that is wasted effort represents wasted time. The best management of our time thus becomes ... TED ENGSTROM The whole of our national sport is not doing very well. TED DEXTER Once again our cricketers have flattered to deceive in Australia. TED DEXTER I think we are all slightly down in the dumps after another loss. We may be in the wrong sign... Ven... TED DEXTER Sympathetic cracks. A term frequently used by architects and surveyors in terms of ageing houses. I ... TED DEXTER Endless cricket, like endless anything else, simply grinds you down. TED DEXTER For those whose lives have been turned upside down by Chinese drywall, we're trying to give them... TED DEUTCH We need to get the corporate money out of the political system and return democracy to the people. TED DEUTCH Social media companies must work closely with the U.S. government to ensure their platforms are not ... TED DEUTCH When enacted, health care reform provides generous tax credits to help people afford their health in... TED DEUTCH Kids from financially distressed households are twice as likely to have to repeat a grade and more t... TED DEUTCH We know that for children, hunger is especially devastating. TED DEUTCH Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fa... TED DEUTCH We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans. TED DEUTCH It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them h... TED DEUTCH Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness, and yet so many Americans ar... TED DEUTCH I have an open door to meet with my constituents and that I work hard to respond to their needs, and... TED DEUTCH We must not allow the Iranian regime to use the nation's vast energy resource as a financial pip... TED DEUTCH I am proud to have played a small part in ensuring that no veteran's heroic service will be cast... TED DEUTCH This OCCUPIED amendment, this constitutional amendment, would overturn Citizens United. It would mak... TED DEUTCH Individuals can stand up against genocide in Darfur and Iran's quest for nuclear weapons. TED DEUTCH Ultimately, the goal of sanctions is to ratchet up the economic pressure on the Iranians to such a l... TED DEUTCH As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide just... TED DEUTCH It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century wo... TED DEUTCH From the preemptive strike that destroyed Egypt's air force during the Six-Day War, to the darin... TED DEUTCH I wasn't a vegan when I came to Congress. It was a decision I made soon after I got here, and it... TED DEUTCH I believe we're stronger when we speak loudly and unapologetically for human rights; when we sta... TED DEUTCH For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discr... TED DEUTCH Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs ... TED DEUTCH It was sanctions that drove Iran to the negotiating table in the first place. TED DEUTCH There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again. TED DEMME The thing that's great about those guys at Miramax is the Weinstein brothers. They are the two f... TED DEMME That's why I'm really trying to produce my own stuff. This film was so good, because I produ... TED DEMME I'm at Miramax now, where I've actually been treated like a Prince. TED DEMME I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film. TED DEMME I think, on a larger note, that filmmakers and studios should start to tuck it in a little bit, beca... TED DEMME And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late '60s and '70s, which is my fav... TED DEMME I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish ano... TED DEMME I tried to stick to my game plan, which was always being aware of what my A story was - the love sto... TED DEMME What I think happens today is that a lot of filmmakers look at other films that are retro pieces, li... TED DEMME The older I get the more I realize there's no real good guys or real bad guys, and I'm curio... TED DEMME But my humble opinion is, I'm not quite sure where I stand on the legalization of drugs - though... TED DEMME You know, I think everything I do cinematically for the rest of my life will probably have some dire... 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TED CHIANG I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to b... TED CHIANG The universe began as an enormous breath being held. I am glad that it did... until this great exhal... TED CHIANG
When 'Watchmen' was published in 1986, the vast majority of comics readers deemed it a water... 
When I was a kid, back in the '40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there... 
My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain A... 
When I was a small child, I partially learned to read with comics, in particular with 'Scamp,... 
There seems to be a peculiar kind of clamor for comics. And I'm not sure how much a part of real... 
Some white people are privileged, some aren't. Some black people are, some aren't. It's ... 
I grew up on the old EC comic books before the Comics Code in North American and with all sort of go... 
I'm a comic nerd. I'm a former serious collector for much of my childhood and early teen yea... 
When I was in college, I wanted to write for 'Late Night With Conan O'Brien,' and I was ... 
I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s. 
My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics. 
It came with the wind through the silence of the night, a long, deep mutter, then a rising howl, and... 
I wasn't terribly aware of Catwoman. She was a DC comics character and as a kid, I wasn't te... 
I was not a giant comic book fan as a kid, but to the extent that I did read comics, Spider-Man was ... 
Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn&#... 
There was a manifesto in the late '60s/early '70s, and it basically laid out what 'black... 
A lot of comic actors derive their main force from childish behavior. Most great comics are doing su... 
Most comics worship music on some level. It's more rock-n-roll to get up there for an hour and m... 
Some people can do things and get away with it. Comics are famously like that. Why is it that some g... 
I don't really read any comics, but when I got casted on the show, I starting reading 'The W... 
Part of running DC Comics is that it's much larger than Image Comics is, or was. There's a c... 
I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure o... 
My father spent his entire early career as an illustrator for comic books: EC Comics like 'Tales... 
I get younger people who watch Conan or The Daily Show, but before that it was mostly people who kne... 
There's Dick Van Dyke and John Ritter, the two greatest physical comics of our generation. 
We're comic. We're all comics. We live in a comic time. And the worse it gets the more comic we are. 
True, comics are a popular art, and yes, I believe their primary obligation is to entertain, but com... 
Back when we was in school in Mississippi, we had Little Black Sambo. That's what you learned: A... 
'Man up' is a sexist term that should be retired along with all the other gender-based imper... 
When I was a little girl, everything in the world fell into either of these two categories: wrong or... 
I read the comics long before I was ever involved with the films. 
Oh yeah, I grew up with comics. You know, I always like to describe myself as a 'narrative junki... 
I read 'Scarlett' recently, and that was a killer comic book. The 'Black Widow' was ... 
In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who ... 
And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for ... 
Conan the Barbarian. 
I do think there are some great female comics: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph. Th... 
I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I... 
I do know in the 1960s comics, Martian Manhunter took on the form of a black man - that could have b... 
I don't think the mainstream media understands people of color are multidimensional. For some re... 
When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to... 
I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tong... 
Not to sound too much like Christopher Guest in 'Waiting for Guffman,' but on Thanksgiving y... 
I'm not cool enough to hang out with any rock stars. Jay-Z doesn't come over to my house. I ... 
I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo. 
I believe in Christianity, Judaism and Islamism, but I stay away from churches, synagogues and mosqu... 
I've played almost every lead character from Henry VI to Othello. I'm dying to tackle Richar... 
I suddenly discovered that acting made girls notice me. 
There is something very very special, universal and easily identifiable among all Jews; it is beyond... 
The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad. 
It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot. 
My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left ho... 
I always managed to get in trouble, like every kid. But I had to learn a lot of hard lessons on my o... 
My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What th... 
Sharks are in real trouble, and they need all the help they can get. 
We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick... 
We are so arrogant, we forget that we are not the reason for evolution, we are not the point of evol... 
I have been proud to fight and stand for religious liberty, to stand against Planned Parenthood, to ... 
The power of the American people, when we rise up and stand for liberty, knows no bounds. 