Bill Watterson
Related ANN NOCENTI GARRY TRUDEAU Comics is a powerful idea, but an idea that's been squandered, ignored and misunderstood for generat... SCOTT MCCLOUD I vividly remember my first 'Superman' comic, which my granddad bought me when I was about 7... DAVE GIBBONS HARVEY PEKAR People, they think that animation is a style. Animation is just a technique. It's like, people, ... MARJANE SATRAPI DJIMON HOUNSOU Bill Watterson, creator of the extremely popular 'Calvin and Hobbes,' did know when to quit ... RON GOULART Comics don't like to see other comics do well. CARROT TOP In comics, images are generally impressionistic. Usually, they are rendered with economy in order to... WILL EISNER People think I have an interest in comics, but I'm only interested in comics from the '40s, ... TERRY ZWIGOFF In the beginning of the century, in 1900, the newspapers in this country began running comic strips,... WILL EISNER The deal with the Disney comics is to do stories and comics in a style that appeals to an older audi... DAN VADO I was always most interested in drawing - most of my childhood drawings are black-and-white line wor... JEFFREY BROWN The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that... ELLEN FORNEY KELLY SUE DECONNICK JOSS WHEDON JOSS WHEDON As an art form, comics are threatened by legacy strips. The fact that papers are running [legacy str... BERKELEY BREATHED CHRIS ROCK MARK WAID HARVEY PEKAR There are comics in L.A. doing impressions, and the first thing they do is hunch over and then start... AL MADRIGAL JOHN RIDLEY It's a pretty substantial impact. As far as the best of the back issue comics go, that stuff is gone... CHRIS WISE I read comics and stuff. I buy a lot of comics, a lot of films and boxsets. ED GAMBLE I dug up some old John Buscema 'Conan' comics. Man, when Alfredo Alcala was inking, that was... TED NAIFEH JO BRAND G. WILLOW WILSON Do they believe? Yes. They believe that they can beat anybody. TREVOR ADAIR DANIEL CLOWES I got into underground comics fairly early on and kind of wandered away from the superhero stuff, bu... JONATHAN LETHEM JO BRAND One thing I think is that comics are really good at expressing emotion. I think there's a way th... JEFFREY BROWN DANIEL CLOWES When they go to work, and they are wearing military uniforms, they will take orders from their milit... HASSAN QASSAS A lot of comics aren't their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn't always ranting and raving.... BILLY EICHNER J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Dichotomies are an inherent part of comics, aren't they? Comics are both pictures and words. The... GENE LUEN YANG Motion comics are just cheap animation. Very cheap animation. And I like animation almost as much as... DAVE MORRIS I thank God for schools that are serious about the gospel of Jesus Christ. They are vital to perpetu... JAMES C. DOBSON JOSS WHEDON BO BURNHAM NEIL GAIMAN ART SPIEGELMAN That's the most amazing thing about writing, whether it's in prose or comics: that you can c... ADAM CHRISTOPHER The comics I made from 1990 to 1997 were largely based in vaguely urban, vaguely dystopic settings b... NATE POWELL DEYTH BANGER BILL WATTERSON JIM LEE CRAIG GROESCHEL It's not like since I make comics I only read comics and since I make movies I will only go out ... MARJANE SATRAPI NORM CROSBY We're seeing comics in Hollywood, ... and we're also seeing Hollywood in comics. DAVID ROLAND In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is no... BEN KATCHOR DANIEL CLOWES LYDIA MILLET GREG RUCKA They can go they can take their time and when they find the right thing they can move forward. There... DAVID WLUKA EMO PHILIPS I do still read comics since I started writing for DC, but nowhere near as much as I used to, and I&... KAREN TRAVISS TILDA SWINTON To be honest, writing comics is a dream come true - the form is unparalleled and is home to some of ... ADAM CHRISTOPHER They are allowed to do a substantial amount of political activity, but they are not allowed to make ... CRAIG HOLMAN I don't think schooling of any sort really prepares you for real life. I don't know if art s... DAVE GIBBONS EMO PHILIPS CAROL BURNETT When I was a school kid, I used to read lots of comics. This started me on drawing. I would make my ... MARCEL DZAMA JAMES GUNN The difference between graphic novels and web comics is even greater than graphic novels and story b... DOUG TENNAPEL The crowd last November was just outstanding. They loved the whole show from beginning to end. The c... DANNY LIBERTO I'm told that I look like a nice girl. But, yes, I do a full contact sport, and when people ask ... CARMEN MARTON I hate this word 'graphic novel.' It is a term publishing houses have created for the bourge... MARJANE SATRAPI Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by lear... DAVE GIBBONS Comics were going down for the second time and here, all of a sudden, came this thing and for the ne... GIL KANE DANNY SILK CHANDLER RIGGS CHRIS WARE The museum was interested in me for a long time because I use Archie comics in my art. DANIEL O'CONNOR I don't believe in regrets. There are a few things I'd do differently, but I can't go ba... MALORIE BLACKMAN DAVID DASTMALCHIAN When I went to school - Pasadena Playhouse - we were taught that the obligation of the actor is twof... SID HAIG RAY ROMANO BILL WATTERSON HARVEY PEKAR MARLEE MATLIN HARVEY PEKAR I have seen a stunning amount of death and destruction. Creation yes, but more death than birth. Man... S.C. PARRIS Comics are cool. I read 'Batman' and 'Spawn'. ANDREW LAWRENCE Whales only get harpooned when they come to the surface, and turtles can only move forward when they... CHARLES A. JAFFE Whether they realize it or not, artists who do their works of art by copying from nudes and nature a... DAVID L. HATTON They don't want to be taken out of circulation. They want to unplug from the pressures, yes, but the... LISA ANDERSON GEORGE CARLIN 'Popular' is supposed to mean you have a lot of friends. But now it's come to the point that the pop... DANA CONVISSAR The most impactful comics that I've read are the ones where the artists swung for the bleachers ... ADRIAN TOMINE TILDA SWINTON ROSECRANS BALDWIN CAROL LEIFER Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to thei... BILL GRIFFITH [If there's a common denominator, it's boomers finding more meaning in how they spend their time.] T... LISA ANDERSON
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There are a lot of Chinese comics, but the Chinese comics tend to be more historical and conservativ... 
In their heyday, comics were a dominant force in popular culture, but that's over. 
When I was a kid, back in the '40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there... 
We like to make the Marvel comics films because they're fun. Families can go see them together. ... 
Comics are not theatre - there's a very important difference in that the reader controls the pag... 
We'll meet a Wonder Woman who is similar to the one from the original comics and from the TV series ... 
We'll meet a Wonder Woman who is similar to the one from the original comics and from the TV series ... 
Show me one guy or woman as funny as Rodney Dangerfield or as good as George Carlin, Richard Pryor, ... 
What I need is for comics to not cheapen out and just do what they think a bunch of bloodthirsty 15 ... 
I continue to be disappointed that people don't try and diversify the kind of work they are doin... 
If there are two kinds of people in the world - DC Comics people and Marvel Comics people - what kin... 
Regular panelists on shows can be terrifying. They own that space, and many guest comics suspect the... 
In comics, we're all weird together. I can go to a comics convention and not stand out, even tho... 
I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, b... 
I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one... 
I've found nothing but support and generosity from older comics. I think comedians are a lot nic... 
A nice, easy place for freedom of speech to be eroded is comics, because comics are a natural target... 
Comics are a gateway drug to literacy. 
And what do they want!? 
You know, sometimes the world seems like a pretty mean place.' 
Part of running DC Comics is that it's much larger than Image Comics is, or was. There's a c... 
We are far from perfect but willing to be different. 
Every city you go to has television and radio talk shows that are dying to give young comics a showc... 
I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s. 
When 'Watchmen' was published in 1986, the vast majority of comics readers deemed it a water... 
The worst thing that can happen for a writer is for a writer to start believing their own press. I t... 
My jokes are in my head and I have a duplicate copy of my jokes in a lot of British comics' heads, w... 
One of the wonderful things that I've always loved as an art student, what I always loved about ... 
I do think there are some great female comics: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph. Th... 
When I was a small child, I partially learned to read with comics, in particular with 'Scamp,... 
Popular opinion or the pressure of others does not sway the language of powerful people. They know e... 
I don't really read any comics, but when I got casted on the show, I starting reading 'The W... 
There seems to be a peculiar kind of clamor for comics. And I'm not sure how much a part of real... 
If you look at Stan Lee and the Marvel comics, yes, there's a lot of awesome, serious and dramat... 
The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess s... 
Popular broadcast shows and movies have their closed captions stripped when they go to the Internet. 
Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the ... 
I'm a huge Marvel fan, and the fact that they take the liberties that they do in filmmaking - I ... 
Tintin comics evoke Bermuda, where my parents doled out comics for good behavior and my grandmother ... 
I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an exe... 
Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems. 
There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.