Quotes by Comic Book Artists

But if there must be an end, let it be loud. Let it be bloody. Better to burn than to wither away in the dark.
Mike Mignola
While the characters drive the epic story of Robotech, it’s the robotic mecha that capture the imagination.
Tommy Yune
One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct.
René Sterne
Fairy tales thrive on black and white. In life, there’s only grey – no bad guys, no good guys. You could be the Cheshire cat, Snow White, a troll or a pastry-making witch whose diet consists only of little kids, but you’ll always be you.
Arnold Arre
Lady, I was gonna cut you some slack, 'cause you're a major mythological figure...but now you've just gone nuts!
Mike Mignola
No rain but thunder, and the sound of giants.
Mike Mignola
But...that doesn't make any sense...!''It does if you're a goat.
Linda Medley
This is a grave. There is no honor here in broken tools and old bones, only in the deeds of our children.
Mike Mignola
Look at me. Do you see terror? Do you see fear? Or is it just your own reflection?""You're right. I see my reflection in your eyes--And it's kicking your ass!
Tony S. Daniel
Life is stressful,dear. That's why they say "rest in peace.
David Mazzucchelli
I guess when you'd lived as long, and pondered as much, as Old Tom had...a game of hopscotch could be more profound than village politics or gossip.
Linda Medley
See . . . um . . . the thing is, I met with Lisa a few days ago. She wanted to apologize for . . . Halloween, and not calling . . . Thing is, her previous story . . . um . . . She wanted me to read it. She . . . wanted to explain her issues. She was jealous . . . of you and me becoming friends and . . . kinda lost it, I guess.My point is, um . . . she used the story to put it into words . . .I think she is writing messages. . . to you.
Stjepan Šejić
I don't know what I was looking for . . . I felt empty. I guess. Not hearing from you made it all seem surreal, like you were never there, a dream, a figment of my imagination.I went to your site that day to . . . I guess, double-check.I thought. . . maybe you wrote something, a new story . . . a message . . . anything.I did find a new story . . . It wasn't about us . . .And I ended up feeling even emptier.
Stjepan Šejić
Yes here's to the founding fathers—slave-owners, British citizens who didn't want to pay taxes...
David Mazzucchelli
He feels safer just knowing that even if he's away there is a home waiting for him to return.
Gabriel Bá
Life at best is bittersweet.
Jack Kirby
were the last words that I wrote for you enough to tell youthat in my death the light that shone through my painful darknesswas a blinding vision of your eternal smile?cold scalpel's steel whispers tear at my very coreas I cling to my memories of you...
Philippe Xavier
Outcasts, callused from being in exile for too long, learn to thrive on being the hated; the attention and infamy of our actions fuel us to become antiheroes. Too often do we forget: we risk self-destruction if we fail to follow what we know is right; our talents too often become misplaced, misdirected, misguided from what could have been something wonderful.
Mike Norton
I've seen you fuck up one major relationship. I'll be damned if I let you ruin this one as well!
Stjepan Šejić
When we reject our origins, we become the product of whatever soil that we find ourselves planted; the colors of our leaves change as we consume borrowed nutrients with borrowed roots and, like a tree, we grow.
Mike Norton
I did not say it was true, only that I believe it.
Mike Mignola
Mutants, super beings, gods, aliens, a guy who sticks to walls at one extreme, a creature who eats planets at the other; Each one that comes into being, they feel, diminishes the rest of humanity, ordinary homo sapiens, that little bit more.
Jim Lee
Well, yeah, you listen to a talking snake and there's gonna be trouble.
Mike Mignola
The lady who works in the grocery store at the corner of my block is called Denise, and she's one of America's great unpublished novelists. Over the years she's written forty-two romantic novels, none of which have ever reached the bookstores. I, however, have been fortunate enough to hear the plots of the last twenty-seven of these recounted in installments by the authoress herself every time I drop by the store for a jar of coffee or can of beans, and my respect for Denise's literary prowess knows no bounds. So, naturally enough, when I found myself faced with the daunting task of actually starting the book you now hold in your hands, it was Denise I turned to for advice.
Dave Gibbons
But some words to men and women, boys and girls alike: The quality of the work must merit the readers' time and money. Do it for yourself, but make yourself a member of your own audience. There is no other way to evaluate your own progress.
Wendy Pini
It’s complicated, what makes a person. I think…part of it is experience—whether you seek them out or they come to you—and your reactions to them. Even then, you may not know exactly how something affects you, and sometimes that says even more. I guess the best way to understand something is to actually go through it yourself.
Jonathan Luna
Love is the biggest mystery of the universe. But why try to solve it, when one simply view it for what it is and marvel at the wonders and strangeness it brings?
Arnold Arre
The more we wait, the more everything and everyone looks like a grain of sand escaping between our fingers before vanishing into the wind.
Fábio Moon
In our springtime there is no better,there is no worse.Blossoming branches burgeon as the must.Some are long,some are short.'Stay upright.Stay with life.
Cyril Pedrosa
In our springtime there is no better,there is no worse.Blossoming branches burgeon as they must.Some are long,some are short.Stay upright.Stay with life.
Cyril Pedrosa
Few suffer more than those who refuse to forgive themselves.
Mike Norton
I can't really tell how old I am, only that I'm too young to wonder if I asked the right questions in the past, and too old to wish the future will bring me all the answers.
Gabriel Bá
We don't seek anyone out. We just wait and hope that people who want the same things come along.
Jonathan Luna
Life’s not a one-shot special. It’s a friggin’ on-going series. Live it!
Arnold Arre
And sometimes we die to prove that we lived.
Fábio Moon
Fall. Stand. Learn. Adapt.
Mike Norton
One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.
Mike Norton
The darkness does not flow from my being to them, but out of their hearts and into my skin. I don't inspire your evil. I never did. You offer it to me, from the gravest crime to the smallest indifference.
Phil Hester
Mastering the art of seduction gives one a great power, and like any power, it's to be wielded with responsibility; a man who wields the art of seduction without a sense of responsibility and restraint is a walking proximity bomb of viral epidemics, needless procreation, heartbroken families, and shattered dreams.
Mike Norton
She was the most beautiful creature on Earth - her hair said so in that language only hair can speak.
Gabriel Bá
Having one eye makes you see the world in unusual ways, Shockwave..." -Overlord
Nick Roche
Me? I like wearing a condom. It means I'm having sex. I already spend most of my time NOT wearing one. It's like a tuxedo - I enjoy putting one on for special occasions.
David Mazzucchelli
So long as we are brave enough to accept the consequences of our actions, no one can take away our freedom of choice.
Mike Norton
Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is what makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.
Mike Norton
Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.
Mike Norton
It is not what you can do for your country, but what you can do for all of mankind.
Mike Norton
Someone once said: "We do not make friends, we recognize them." And you'll know who they are because they play according to the same rules that you do.
Ken Niimura
You really are a dumbass.
Stjepan Šejić
Beethoven said that it's better to hit the wrong note confidently, than hit the right note unconfidently. Never be afraid to be wrong or to embarrass yourself; we are all students in this life, and there is always something more to learn.
Mike Norton
Never enter relationships. Otherwise, suffer the pains that come with it. Enjoy your individuality while you can.
Arnold Arre
Ideas can never be traced to any one source. They are tossed back and forth between people until the decision makers step in and choose what they think is a success formula.
Jack Kirby
The true measure of a man is not what he dreams, but what he aspires to be; a dream is nothing without action. Whether one fails or succeeds is irrelevant; all that matters is that there was motion in his life. That alone affects the world.
Mike Norton
A man of logic is a man of sin.
Mike Norton
War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but also the very worst. Where is it, I ask, the proper conduit through which a soldier should be raised from whence they would become an upstanding citizen of the world, instead of a single country?
Mike Norton
Personally, I wouldn’t wait around for someone to tell you you’re good enough before you make your own comics. Just make them, always try to improve and care about what you’re doing. Be relentless and never give up.
Troy Little
Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new world, a new forest.
Mike Norton
The best way to be appreciative for your life is to live it; don't die for any other reason but love. Dreams are what guide us, art is what defines us, math is makes it all possible, and love is what lights our way.
Mike Norton
The young open the paper to forget about life by reading the funny strips. The old do it to forget about death by reading other people's obits. My advice: don't open the paper and go on with your life.
Gabriel Bá
Don't be cool. Like everything.
Shaky Kane
The nostalgia of a moment's love can be an illusionary precipice from which we fall from truth; in heartbreak, what we escape to in the past is what tortures us in the present.
Mike Norton