Comics Quotes

So the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund is out there preserving and fighting for, and sometimes winning and sometimes losing, the fight for First Amendment rights in comics and, more generally, for freedom of speech.

I started off at the high level, in the slick magazines, but they didn't use my name, they used house names. Anyway, then I went downhill to the pulps, then downhill further to the comics.

I think comics in New York are interested in being comics. And there're comics in L.A. who are touring comics, who are certainly more interested in stand-up, but a lot of L.A. stand-ups are really looking to do something else.

All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form.

When you're drawing comics, you get very involved in how the story is going to develop and you spend more time daydreaming on that particular subject.

It's business, selling comics, you work out what sells and you don't want to muck about with it too much.

I love meeting fans. The people who are fans of my books are really smart and dedicated, because some independent comics are hard to get. I will drive all the way to Pittsburgh or Detroit to put it in their hands.

It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media.

I've done illustration on the side. But other than that, comics have been my main things.

Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!