It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.
Daniel Clowes

It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can.
Richard Russo

Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it.
Ben Stiller

Kafka is still unrecognized. He thought he was a comic writer.
Leslie Fiedler

Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.
Avi Arad

Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.
Bill Griffith

Many of the artists who have represented Negro life have seen only the comic, ludicrous side of it, and have lacked sympathy with and appreciation for the warm big heart that dwells within such a rough exterior.
Henry Ossawa Tanner

Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.
Bill Maher

Mike gets to play four roles this time, if we ever did it again, he will play my role as well. He is a comic genius, everyone wants to be in this movie, let's hope that everyone will wish to see it as well.
Michael York

Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.
Harry Harrison

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
Ralph Fiennes

Mostly, I was only interested in television as a kid, and the majority of reading material I collected was an adjunct to that central concern, comic books and magazines included.
Chris Ware

Movies and television shows based on comic books constitute the worst single genre in the history of filmed entertainment (with the exception of porn).
John Podhoretz

My ambition was to stop waiting tables. That was how I measured success: finally, I was able to stop waiting tables, and I was able to pay the rent, and that was by being a stand-up comic. Not a very good stand-up comic, but good enough to make a living.
Graham Norton

My mother wanted us to understand that the tragedies of your life one day have the potential to be comic stories the next.
Nora Ephron

My stories are very somber, so I think I need the comic ingredient. Besides, life has so much humor.
Manuel Puig

My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.
Harvey Pekar

NBC anchor Brian Williams is a standup comic in disguise.
Leonard Maltin

No matter how heinous someone's behaviour, if you make them a comic character, you can't expect people to hate them.
Chris Morris

No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.
Donal Logue