A Quote by Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.
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Comic books sort of follow with the move - if people see the movie and if they're interested in the character and want to see more of the character, they start buying the comic books. So a good movie helps the sale of the comic books and the comic books help the movie and one hand washes the other. So, I don't think there's any reason to think that comics will die out.
I grew up with comic books, and I'm from the Caribbean, so comic books were really a great interrogator of American culture for me.
I still love comic books. When you have a kid, that's an excuse to keep reading all the comic books.
I grew up with my uncle's comic books at my grandma's house, so I've always loved my comic book reading.
I feel when a writer treats a character as 'precious,' the writer runs the risk of turning them into a comic book character. There's nothing wrong with comic book characters in comic books, but I don't write comic books.
When I did get into comic books, it was after a whole other career, and when I got into comic books, they didn't even know who I was.
To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.
Comic books, graphic novels, involve constant toggling and it's hard work. You get tired reading comic books, but you never get tired looking at pictures or reading words.
In a sense, comic books are frozen movies. If you look at a comic book, you are generally seeing the storyboard for a film. The great advantage of comic books, over the years, has been that, if they are frozen movies, they are not limited by budget. They are only limited by imagination.
Ultimately, there's always been a link between comic books and video games, and comic books and movies, and then basically all three steadily becoming this sort of transmedia.
I definitely read the comic books and got as familiar with the comic books as possible. I was always a fan of Spider-Man and most superheroes. There aren't a whole lot of little boys out there that aren't.
Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and draw my own comic books when I was on the old Lost in Space series.
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Superman was my first comic back in the '50s; that was me under the bedspread with the flashlight reading comic books.
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