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Dwayne McDuffie was one of my favorite writers. When I was growing up, he was one of the few African Americans working in American comics.

— Gene Luen Yang

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.

— Adrianne Palicki

Even though I was trained in play writing and screenwriting, when I sat down to write a comic book for the first time, Alan Moore was first and foremost in my mind.

— Brian K. Vaughan

I've always gotten a positive reaction to doing African-American characters.

— Tracey Ullman

I'm very much influenced by your traditional comic book artists like Jack Kirby, Alex Toth and Walter Simonson. Their styles were sort of what I was gravitating towards.

— Tim Fish

Yes, I was inspired by Jack London and still love reading his books. Ernie Banks is another hero because I lived in Chicago for two years as a kid, and I loved that he was the Cubs' loyal underdog and one of the first African-Americans to make that breakthrough.

— Conrad Anker

I love working at Marvel, but it was definitely DC that got me hooked as a reader.

— Jason Aaron

My hero in comic books is Jack Kirby: 'Spider-Man,' 'Fantastic Four,' 'Captain America,' Marvel Comics. He was really the basis for Marvel Comics.

— Walter Mosley

✗Opposing Perspectives

I was a Charles Schulz kind of guy. I didn't read comics books. The Warner Bros. guys were great - Chuck Jones and Friz Freleng.

— Bob Peterson

I've met loads of black and brown and various people who are well into comics.

— Ruth Negga

Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.

— Mickey Spillane