20th-century Comics Artist Quotes

Jerry Siegel

Harvey Pekar

Robert Kirkman

Jim Starlin

John Wagner

Rick Remender

There are forces at work you do not perceive. I weave a delicate strategy which rash actions could rend. Patience, please.

American Splendor is just an ongoing journal. It's an ongoing autobiography. I started it when I was in my early 30s, and I just keep going.

...[Bob Kane] had an idea for a character called "Batman", and he'd like me to see the drawings. I went over to Kane's, and he had drawn a character who looked very much like Superman with kind of... reddish tights, I believe, with boots... no gloves, no gauntlets... with a small domino mask, swinging on a rope. He had two stiff wings that were sticking out, looking like bat wings. And under it was a big sign... BATMAN.

As a science fiction fan, I have long been very familiar with the various themes in the field. The superman theme has been one of them ever since Samson and Hercules. I just sat down and wrote a story of that type — only in this first story, the Superman was a villain.
A couple of months after I published this story, it occurred to me that a Superman as a hero rather than as a villain might make a great comic strip character in the vein of Tarzan, only more super and sensational than that great character. Joe and I drew it up as a comic book.

In a world ruled by the dead, we are forced to finally start living.

Everything slows down with age, except the time it takes cake and ice cream to reach your hips.

I won't patronize you by saying I know how you feel-every tragedy is different, and personal.

John Jackson Miller

Nothing can compare to creating characters and worlds out of thin air with your friends and making a book exactly the way you think it should be made, pure creative freedom, purity of intention, with no boundaries.