Comic Strips – Quotes

There are a lot

There are a lot of comic strips in Brazilian newspapers that have been around for 30, almost 40 years. They are very famous in Brazil. Gabriel Ba

In Brazil we have

In Brazil we have a comic strip in the newspaper. That one also attracts a different kind of followers. Gabriel Ba

While editors and newspaper owners currently fret over shrinking readership and lost profits, they do the one thing that insures cutting their own throats; they keep reducing space for the one feature that attracts new young readers in the first place; the comic strips. Elayne Boosler

We\\’ve seen the uproars

We’ve seen the uproars around the world concerning cartoons depicting the prophet Mohammad. Anyone who does not think comic strips are relevant never had a fatwa put on him/her for drawing a picture. Elayne Boosler

Peellaert\’s comic strips were

Peellaert’s comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism. Federico Fellini

Comic-strip artists do not

Comic-strip artists do not make good husbands, and God knows they do not make good comic strips. Don Herold

I answered an ad,

I answered an ad, for a campus cartoonist at the university I was in, my freshman year. I was like, Oh, I can draw, and I’m sort of a funny guy. I should try this. Then they paid me to do a comic strip for the paper. Dan Povenmire

For a long time

For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information. Craig McCracken

Real drawing is about

Real drawing is about specifics. It’s about describing an object as accurately as possible. In a comic strip you have to draw a picture of the idea of the object. You have to draw the word that you are picturing, then you have to mix in specifics with it for it to work as a … Read more

There’s a rhythm to

There’s a rhythm to the words combined with the pictures [in a comic]. Whenever I’m working on a comic strip I re-read it, probably hundreds of times through to pay attention to how all of those things work. Sometimes even changing the angle of a character’s eyebrow can really, seriously alter the effect and overall … Read more