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Comics, in a sense, the style, the images - it's almost like music. They say music is a universal language, but when the eyes behold something, a figure, somebody moving; it's real, and it cannot be denied.

— John Lewis

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.

— Bill Griffith

Most comics worship music on some level. It's more rock-n-roll to get up there for an hour and make people laugh.

— Greg Behrendt

Comics are about the illusion of movement, and movies are about movement itself.

— Jason Henderson

Comics, at least in periodical form, exist almost entirely free of any pretense; the critical world of art hardly touches them, and they're 100% personal.

— Chris Ware

Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.

— Scott McCloud

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

— Mika

I draw on a lot of cinematic influences like Ingmar Bergman and Wim Wenders, artists who let a story take its time. Comics are a visual medium, and visuals should be allowed to tell some of that story.

— Jeff Lemire

Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other practitioners.

— Dave Gibbons

✗Opposing Perspectives

Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.

— Joe Simon

People, they think that animation is a style. Animation is just a technique. It's like, people, they think that comics is a style, like comics is a superhero story. Comic is just a narration, and is a medium, you can say any kind of story in comics and you can say of any kind of story in animation.

— Marjane Satrapi