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One of my favorite graphic novels of all time is Grant Morrison's 'Earth-2.'


Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
Expand the definition of 'reading' to include non-fiction, humor, graphic novels, magazines, action adventure, and, yes, even websites. It's the pleasure of reading that counts; the focus will naturally broaden. A boy won't read shark books forever.
Jon Scieszka
Tags: Humor Will Even
This is a profession for me, but I started off as a self-publisher working on my own schedule and my own stuff before moving on to graphic novels with First Second Books, where there was definitely a schedule, but it was very different from monthly comics.
Gene Luen Yang
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I grew up reading comic books. Super hero comic books, Archie comic books, horror comic books, you name it.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa
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To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.
Alan Moore
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I don't really read magazines that much. I read comic books.


Freddie Prinze, Jr.
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Graphic novels are not traditional literature, but that does not mean they are second-rate. Images are a way of writing. When you have the talent to be able to write and to draw, it seems a shame to choose one. I think it's better to do both.
Marjane Satrapi
Tags: You Think I Think
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People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.


Harvey Pekar
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I played Dungeons & Dragons and have read comic books since I was a kid.


Phil LaMarr
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Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the 'X-Men' characters, for more than the action. I think that's what set it apart from many of the other comic books. In the case of Wolverine, when he appeared, he was a revolution really. He was the first anti-hero.
Hugh Jackman
Tags: Think More Really
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.
Raymond E. Feist
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Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere.


Eli Roth
When I was coming up, I kept a ton of comic books, almost 300 comic books. Back in the day, they didn't used to cost that much, so I used to keep 'em, collect 'em, trade 'em.
Michael Clarke Duncan
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I liked baseball and sports and Garbage Pail Kids and comic books. I know what it's like to really adore something.
Todd Lowe
I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.
Harvey Pekar
Tags: Work People Think
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Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam.


G. Willow Wilson
It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
There are great comic books, these great geniuses that manage to tell you a story in one frame, and that became the thing that opened my eyes.
Pierre Coffin
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I grew up as a fan of comic books, and I've been reading them for so long that I've never felt an affinity toward just one.
Katee Sackhoff
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There is a certain danger in thinking about diversity in its own little box, as something that is somehow separate from 'normal' comic books and comics creators.
G. Willow Wilson