Comics Artist Quotes

Jerry Siegel

Harvey Pekar

Robert Kirkman

Jim Starlin

John Wagner

Rick Remender

...[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.

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

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.

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.

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.