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...Marshall alone his room with a comically tall stack of books, methodically absorbing their contents as though they were drugs... Doug Coupland
Guillermo del Toro quote: "video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium..."
video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia". Guillermo del Toro
So then she had to take it, though still with her defeated protest. "It isn't so much your BEING 'right'--it's your horrible sharp eye for what makes you so."Oh but you're just as bad yourself. You can't resist me when I point that out."She sighed it at last all comically, all tragically, away. "I can't indeed resist you."Then there we are!" said Strether. Henry James
That pompous phrase (graphic novel) was thought up by some idiot in the marketing department of DC. I prefer to call them Big Expensive Comics. Alan Moore
Joss Whedon quote: "Men who are comfortable with powerful women are more powerful..."
Men who are comfortable with powerful women are more powerful men? (Comic Con, 7-13-2012) Joss Whedon
Anne Frank quote: "I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere..."
I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten. Anne Frank
Bill Watterson quote: "I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first..."
I hope some historian will confirm that I was the first cartoonist to use the word 'booger' in a newspaper comic strip. Bill Watterson
Our visual cortexes are wired to quickly recognize faces and then quickly subtract massive amounts of detail from them, zeroing in on their essential message: Is this person happy? Angry? Fearful? Individual faces may vary greatly, but a smirk on one is a lot like a smirk on another. Smirks are conceptual, not pictorial. Our brains are like cartoonists - and cartoonists are like our brains, simplifying and exaggerating, subordinating facial detail to abstract comic concepts. Jonathan Franzen
Patton Oswalt quote: "Comedy and terror and autobiography and comics and..."
Comedy and terror and autobiography and comics and literature-they're all the same thing. To me. Patton Oswalt
One thing that most comic artists avoid is showing decisions. They show action, sure, and they show results, but they don’t show (because it’s difficult to show) the hero or the villain making a choice. Seth Godin
Julio Cortazar quote: "Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a..."
Nothing is more comical than seriousness understood as a virtue that has to precede all important literature Julio Cortazar
When I see heavy dramas with no comic relief, I don't think they're honest. I don't think people go through life miserable all the time; in fact, if you're very miserable, you giggle a lot at the oddest things."--Carl Reiner in "The Trib Carl Reiner
I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result. Edward Said
[Jos] Saramago for the last 25 years stood his own with any novelist of the Western world [..] He was the equal of Philip Roth, Gunther Grass, Thomas Pynchon and Don DeLillo. His genius was remarkably versatile? he was at once a great comic and a writer of shocking earnestness and grim poignancy. It is hard to believe he will not survive. Harold Bloom
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clear air and dirty the last clean streams and push our paved roads through the last of the silence . . . Wallace Stegner

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