Comics is a language. It's a language most people understand intuitively.
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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.
Comics are such a powerful educational tool. Simply put, there are certain kinds of information that are best communicated through sequential visuals.
Learning to write comics is, in fact, so bloody difficult because it's such a weird form that it does actually make you a bit more adaptable for other forms.
The way I process things, they way I express myself, is in comics, just as poets process things that they are trying to understand.
Comics as art. I do comics as comics, and my opportunity to tell stories. Simple. Basic. Let the characters have the excitement, not the package. That's where I come from.
One of the things about comics is people can linger on images and words as long as they want.
Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard.
I had a lot of ideas on how comics worked and pretty early on I had this idea that it would be fun to explain them in comics form.
Comics are a particularly esoteric field where you really learn how to do it, by doing it or by learning from other practitioners.
People are so afraid to say the word 'comic'. It makes you think of a grown man with pimples, a ponytail and a big belly. Change it to 'graphic novel' and that disappears.