Comic Quotes

A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy.

When you're young as a comic, you don't have a lot of leverage.

There were influences in my life that were more important than journalism, such as comic strips and radio.

I'm a joke comic. I tell jokes. I like writing a joke, and I like when a joke works, and I like other comics who tell jokes.

I never worry about people not taking my work seriously as a result of the humor. In the end, the comic's best trick is the illusion that comedy is effortless. That people imagine what he's doing is easy is an occupational hazard.

I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.

The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.

I am a comic writer, which means I get to slay the dragons, and shoot the bull.

Whether I'm doing music or I'm walking down the street or I'm in a record store buying a record or I walk into a comic store and I'm buying comics or having a drink with my friends, it's the same me.

Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you.

I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.

It's my insecurity that makes me want to be a comic, that makes me need the audience.

Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.

I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!

I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married.

For most of my career I did one comic a day, every day, including weekends and holidays.

It works in the comic book, but as the audiences have gotten older and more sophisticated, I think the stories need to grow up with them. This is a story about a couple of rival gangs and what goes wrong in a couple of days.

The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.

I think if you do something effectively whether you're the lover or the comic or the action guy or the villain like I play; movies are very expensive to make. Chances are you'll get asked to play that part again.

I was an avid radio fan when I was a boy, as well as a great lover of comic strips.