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There are still some people out there who believe comic books are nothing more than, well, comic books. But the true cognoscenti know graphic novels are - at their best - an amazing blend of art literature and the theater of the mind.

At any comic book convention in America, you'll find aspiring cartoonists with dozens of complex plot ideas and armloads of character sketches. Only a small percentage ever move from those ideas and sketches to a finished book.

I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.

'The Great Comic Book Artists' is about three score of the best practitioners of graphic story art.

I'm still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I've been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I'll have to get a real job.

To be honest, writing comics is a dream come true - the form is unparalleled and is home to some of the most original and innovative storytelling around.

I feel like there are comic book artists who are comic book artists, and then there's comic book artists who are cartoonists.

Well, there are better cartoonists now than there ever have been. I firmly believe that. There's some amazing work being done.

When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.