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Paul Cornell
  
 New Excalibur, Wisdom
Young Avengers Presents

 

"I expected Marvel editorial to be all drawn by Jack Kirby, square
jawed and chomping cigars and yelling about me being a gold
brick, whatever that was. But it turns out they're drawn by
Frank Brunner, and are all gentle and swirly."

- Newsarama, 1/10/08 [link]

 

Chip Mosher
  
 BOOM! Studios' Marketing
and Sales Director

 

"Gone are the days where people worried about sales being
negatively impacted when you put comic book content online for free."

- Comic Related, 1/4/08 [link]

 

Alan Moore
  
 Watchmen, V For Vendetta
 Swamp Thing, From Hell
 Lost Girls

 

"It would be nice to think that the basic structure of the

industry is changing, that the traditional comics industry is
perhaps withering and dying. I, for one, am quite interested

in seeing what springs up to take its place."

- Wizard Magazine #195, January 2008, Pg. 20

"Shot into London for quick shop and I tell you, it's more
I Am Legend than Xmas Carol out here"
- Warren Ellis on Twitter, 12/21/07 [link]

Quote of the Week - Posted 12/16/07

 

Brian Reed

 

Captain Marvel
The Circle, Ms. Marvel

 

" Stupid fingers are refusing to type what the brain demands of them. Maybe I'll break one and see if the others fall into line."

- Brian Reed on Twitter, 12/09/07 [link]

Quote of the Week - Posted 12/08/07

 

Greg Rucka

 

Checkmate
Queen and Country

 

"There are things I want to do, and I want to be proud of them when they hit the stands. Where I do that work, what that work will be, remains to be seen. But at the end of the day, that’s all that this is about — I want to be in a position to do the work I am passionate about, and to do it well, in the manner I wish to do it."
- Rucka's Livejournal Blog, 12/06/07 [link]

Quote of the Week - Posted 12/02/07 - Playing catchup after Mid-Ohio-Con

 

Chris Yambar

 

Simpsons
El Mucho Grande

 

"Barry Windsor-Smith taught us a very important lesson when he first started in this business and they said draw like Jack Kirby. If you look at his early X-Men stuff it was some of the weirdest looking Kirby art I've ever seen in my life. Then he disappeared and he came back and you pick up Rune and a bunch of other stuff he did, whether you like it or hate or not, he had his own thumbprint. It's essential that you become your own thumbprint in this business."
- Comic Related, 11/24/07 [link]

Quote of the Week - Posted 11/27/07 - Playing catchup after Mid-Ohio-Con

 

Marc Sumerak

 

Power Pack
Franklin Richards

 

"For me it was the desire to do something creative. To not sit behind the desk and push papers all day kind of job. I always loved to write and I narrowed it down to either writing comics or being a muppeteer and the college I went to didn't have a good muppeteering program."
- Comic Related, 11/24/07 [link]

Quote of the Week - Posted 11/02/07

 

Jason Aaron

 

Scalped, Wolverine
Ghost Rider

 

"I like to write stories about flawed and angry individuals who try to solve their problems by punching other people in the face. Which is weird, since in real life I’m a total wimp. I haven’t been in a fight since fourth grade, and I lost that one. Nevertheless, my stories tend to be rather dark and violent, but still human, still emotionally relevant."
- Newsarama, 11/1/07 [link]

Quote of the Week - Posted 10/26/07

 

Gregg Hurwitz

 

Foolkiller
Wolverine Annual

 

"As life gets more absurd, and as reality and entertainment blend in everything from The Biggest Loser to Wife Swap, and we're kept abreast of terror color levels and Britney Spear's (lack of) underwear in the same news hour, there is a ridiculousness that can't be written about directly. Too much like satire, too boring. As a writer, you can no longer surprise by merely going overboard. You have to surprise with good, legitimate twists." - Silver Bullet Comics , 10/23/07 [link]

Quote of the Week - Posted 10/19/07

 

John Romita Sr.

 

Retired legend helping
the Hero Initiative

 

"To have a guy come up to me-sometimes a guy in his 50s with a
son and a grandson!-and tell me that all three generations have
read Spider-Man and enjoyed it and loved it…that's just a great
feeling." - Newsarama, 10/19/07 [link]

Quote of the Week - Posted 10/12/07

 

Fabian Nicieza

 

Nightwing
The 99

 

"It's one thing to love a character and really want to write him and
then to actually get the chance. You can choke -- it's happened to
me before -- but you can also start writing and feel... comfortable,
just like you hoped it would." - Pulse, 10/11/07 [link]

Quote of the Week - Posted 10/5/07

 

Mario Gully

 

Mario Gully's Ant
Unleashed

 

"I guess I'm cut from a different cloth than those guys in Cali
but if you are late all the time and your book sales are actually
lower than mine, don't preach to me unless you practice it."
- Newsarama, 10/4/07 [link]

Quote of the Week (Dual Quotes) - Posted 9/28/07

 

Arthur Suydam

 

Marvel Zombies

Heavy Metal

 

Quote #1 - “Comics audiences are much more mature now. It's
no longer just seven and eight year olds; there are a lot of adults who read comics. So I think comics are now very much in competition with things like prose novels. Writing and concept designs have to be competitive now as well as the art.” - CBR, 9/26/07 [link]

 

Quote #2 - "The only thing I could ever remember being afraid of
was zombies.” - CBR, 9/26/07 [link]

Quote of the Week - Posted 9/21/07

 

Mike Kunkel

 

Billy Batson and the Magic
of Shazam, Herobear and
the Kid

 

"The very best hero stories are when you really care and know about the character before they put on their 'super-suit.' To me, Captain Marvel is every kid’s wish come true. What if you were given this magic word and you could turn into the powerful hero? What would you do? That’s what I want to tell." - Newsarama, 9/20/07 [link]

Quote of the Week - Posted 9/14/07

 

Jim Shooter

 

Legion os Super-Heroes
Harbinger: The Beginning

 

"The art in comics is generally better than ever, the writing is
often clever and glib, but in spite of that, far too many comics
are utterly unreadable. Even hardcore fans find many comics
daunting to follow!" - Wizard Universe, 9/8/07 [link]

Quote of the Week - Posted 9/07/07

 

Dan Slott

 

She-Hulk, Avengers:
The Initiative

 

"She-Hulk #21 is the most important Marvel Comic you’ll read all
year. It solves 90% of all of Marvel’s continuity problems - forever!
I’ve wanted to do this story for so long. There’s an idea bucket with
all of these ideas in it for She-Hulk stories, and there was no way
I was leaving without telling this one."

Quote of the Week - Posted 8/31/07

 

Garth Ennis

 

Dan Dare, Preacher
Chronicles of Wormwood

 

"Dan Dare is the quintessential British hero. He's our Captain
America, our Superman, our Batman - he's all of them rolled
into one. He's the original and the best."

Quote of the Week - Posted 8/24/07

 

Amy Hadley

 

Madame Xanadu

Fool's Gold

 

"I’m a strong proponent of bringing a female audience to comics,
and a typical female audience at that—not just girls who happen
to be unique enough to notice that comics are for them, too. I
really hope that, one day, comics will be as common as films.
You need a female audience to accomplish that."

Quote of the Week - Posted 8/17/07

 

Alex Ross

 

Astro City, Justice

Kingdom Come

 

"I have this weird bug where I want to illustrate almost anybody
from the Golden Age of comics, so if I can find an excuse to
do it creatively in these projects, I will make that happen."

Quote of the Week - Posted 8/02/07

 

Matt Wagner

 

Grendel, Mage

Batman & the Mad Monk

 

"That's always been my approach to my craft in general and Grendel in particular; what can I do to push this into a realm that I hadn't considered before? Admittedly, sometimes my reach exceeded my grasp, but I feel those sort of valiant failures are as important to the growth of a creator as the all-out successes."

Quote of the Week - Posted 7/27/07

 

Brian Reed

 

Ms. Marvel, Illuminati

Civil War: The Return

 

"This isn't a resurrection. He is most certainly not back from the dead. What we're seeing is Captain Marvel propelled into the future and witnessing what the world will become after he is gone. Captain Marvel still dies of cancer, lying there in his bed on Titan, with all the other heroes gathered around him. And he stays good and dead after that."

Quote of the Week - Posted 7/20/07

 

Adrian Tomine

 

Optic Nerve
The New Yorker

 

"I would never tell someone that they were reading way too
much into things! Once the book leaves my hands, it’s not
really my place to tell people how they should read it, or
what they should take from it."

Quote of the Week - Posted 7/13/07

 

Barry Kitson

 

Legion of Super-Heroes
The Order

 

"I’ve always loved the Marvel characters and my first big influence was Jack Kirby, so the desire to draw them and feel part of the Marvel niverse has always been tugging away at my psyche."

Quote of the Week - Posted 7/06/07

 

Jock (Mark Simpson)

 

Green Arrow Year One
Faker, Losers

 

"I love trying to tell - or at least hint at - the vibe of the story inside with just one image. It seems it's an often ignored element of designing cover these days, and to me it's the most essential! If you had to boil your story down to just ONE IMAGE..."

Quote of the Week - Posted 6/29/07

 

J.M. DeMatteis

 

Hero Squared

Planetary Bridage

 

"No matter how much you layer super hero tales with psychology and philosophy, the story always comes down to two super beings solving problems by dropping buildings on each other’s heads."

 

Greg Pak

 

Incredible Hulk, Iron Man
Battlestar Galactica

 

"Great comics artists are like great actors — they’re geniuses at bringing out the emotional truth in the subtlest character moments.  And the medium really lends itself to certain kinds of emotion.  There’s something beautiful about the silent panel, for example—comics can depict those moments of quiet realization or introspection with an aching poignancy."

 

Skipper Martin

 

Bizarre New World
White Picket Fences

 

"I would recommend to anyone wanting to do this for a living, grow some thick skin, but don't do anything half way! If you've got a pretty good idea, don't waste anybody's time. Mediocrity is all around us, save a buck, save a tree, don't bother. If on the other hand you've got the million dollar idea, the story that keeps you up at night and sticks to brain like old warm Juicy Fruit, then get your butt out there and tell it to the masses!"

 

Robert Kirkman

 

Invincible, Walking Dead
Astounding Wolf-Men

 

 

"I like hearing how folks got into reading the books and what they think of stuff. I notice that a lot of people tell me The Walking Dead and sometimes Invincible got them back into comics after they'd quit for a number of years. That's a really good thing to hear."

 

 

Ed Brubaker

 

Daredevil, Criminal
Iron Fist, Uncanny X-Men

 

"Daredevil stories just honestly come from Matt Murdock. You sit there with him and his dilemmas and his life and the stories just come to you. Creatively, it's about pushing Matt into corners for him to fight out of, sometimes, and seeing where it goes from there."

"It's a sad day when your hobby becomes your career -- when things are being done by demand. The urge to do it when I was younger was that I did it when I wanted to, if I wanted to. It's fun when you're inspired to do stuff and you have all the time in the world to do it."

 

Keith Giffen

 

52, Justice League
Legion of Super-Heroes

 

"When a professional pretty much says that the stories wrote themselves, that’s just professional shorthand for 'I was having a ball, it was easy.' Even the easiest story that seems to flow out of you is usually the end result of a lot of subconscious percolating and conversations and it just happens to the forebrain at that point."

 

George Perez

 

Brave and the Bold
Infinite Crisis, Teen Titans

 

 

Will Pfeifer

 

Amazons Attack

Catwoman, Finals

 

"Where they’ve been doesn’t have much impact on the story in Amazons Attack. It’s where they’re going that matters and they’re barreling toward Washington D.C., armed for bear and really, really mad."

"“The characters are broken up into several different groups, in some cases they’re surprising choices. [Countdown is] intrigue, it’s espionage, there’s a huge mystery—it really takes into account the entire mosaic of the DC Universe.”

 

J. Torres

 

Ninja Scroll, Titans Go!
Legion of Supes-Heroes

 

"I've always seen Wonder Woman as a little bit of all of the above. She's the first lady of comics. So for me, there's always going to be this stoic, statuesque, regal or majestic quality about her, you know? I've always thought she should be equally intimidating while at the same time inspiring as someone like Superman."

 

John Ostrander

 

GrimJack, Suicide Squad

Spectre, Martian Manhunter

 

"Oh, they’re killing another Titan! It’s not just that we’re
killing them, we’re pounding on them. And it’s meant to be horrific.
You’re meant to see what happens when characters like the
Teen Titans go up against characters like Black Adam."

 

J. Michael Straczynski

 

Bullet Points, Thor

Supreme Power

 

"Is it for the gods to say when men die, or for men to say when
the gods die?" Answering that question is a large part of what
propels Thor back into the world of the living.

 

Tony Bedard

 

Rai, Shadowman, Hourman
Mystic, Exiles, Countdown

 

"Right now, DC looks damn good in a bikini and she’s inviting
me to some great parties, so I’m only to happy to “go steady”
with DC. And if Marvel sees me out with DC and gets
jealous, well that’s okay, too."

 

Joe Simon

 

Captain America co-creator

First editor Timely Comics

 

On the death of Captain America...
"It's a hell of a time for him to go. We really need him now."

 

Terry Moore

 

Strangers in Paradise
Paradise Too, Birds of Prey

 

"J.K. Rowlings talks about what it’s like to end the Harry Potter
series after 17 years of work, quoting Dickens who described
what it’s like after even two years of working on one book.
In my own way, I know what they are talking about."

 

Bill Willingham

 

Fables, Elementals
Jack of Fables, Ironwood

 

 

Mike Baron

 

Nexus, Badger
Spyke, Feud

 

 

Joss Whedon

Buffy, Angel, Runaways
Firefly, Astonising X-Men

 

"Why are people afraid of powerful women? Why is misogyny
streaking through every single culture? Why is the world like that?
The world is not as it should be, and Buffy has now created a bunch
of people with enormous power who kind of realize that. And the
people who realize they realize that are not pleased about it."

 

Gail Simone

 

Birds of Prey, Gen13
Villains United

 

"I’m getting used to following people who cast huge, seemingly
insurmountable shadows on books. There’s a fun challenge to it,
and if you rise to the occasion, you’re a hero. If you don’t, you suck
and should hurry up and die. Lord help me, I do love that challenge."

 

Brad Meltzer

 

Identity Crisis, Green Arrow
Justice League

 

"Superman has always been the lighthouse that others
measure themselves against. But in the past few years, he's
been humbled --forced to rexamine his position during and
after the Crisis. Today, that time is over."

 

Jeff Loeb

 

Batman: Long Halloween
NBC's Heroes, Ultimates

 

 

"We were talking about the end of Civil War and we were talking
about the losses. At the time, I was unaware that one of the
most beloved characters in the Marvel Universe wasn’t going to
make it out alive."

 

Brian Michael Bendis

 

Avengers, Powers
Ultimate Spider-Man
Daredevil, The Pulse

 

"Don't you avengers fans see my grand scheme by now?? I got rid
of all the mutants in House of M. Wiped them all away. Now we
Avengers fans can rule the world bwaaahahahahaha"

Brian K. Vaughan

 

Runaways, Y: The Last Man
Doctor Strange: The Oath
Escapists, Ex Machina

 

"Every writer has 10,000 pages of s#%t in them, and the
only way your writing is going to be any good at all is to
work hard and hit 10,001."

Alan Davis

 

Fantastic Four: The End
Excalibur, Captain Britain

 

"If Reed Richards really cares about humanity, why
doesn’t he share the wealth of technology he created?"

Chris Staros

 

President, Comic Book
Legal Defense Fund

 

"The First Amendment is the cornerstone of our business.
Without it, the comics and graphic novels we make and
enjoy would not be as vital as they are today."

 

Dan Didio

 

Senior Vice President,
DC Executive Editor,
DC Universe
 

"We wanted to create a unified front to get a clearer,
 more  concise direction, and a more unified tone of
 the universe itself so that we didn't have a bunch of
 books that were all moving and feeling like they
 were all operating in different universes or worlds."

Geoff Johns

 

JSA, Infinite Crisis, Flash
Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E.

 

"I'd write Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. again for nothing
 in an attempt for it to survive."

Dale Eaglesham
  
 JSA, Villains United
 Batman: Gotham Knights

 

"The JSA has always been a prize book because I infinitely
 prefer characters that are unusual, have an edge to them, and
 have the guts to go out in public with a wrinkly costume."

 

Alan Moore
  
 Watchmen, V For Vendetta
 Swamp Thing, From Hell
 Lost Girls

 

"The amount of information that you can get into the
 comic medium is astonishing. The way that you can get
 that information to lodge in your reader’s mind by using
 imaginary to underline the words, is also astonishing."

 

Kevin Grevioux
  
 Valkyries, Hammer Kid,
 Guardian Heroes, Toy Box, Vindicators

 

"All-ages shouldn’t mean kiddie. I don’t want to read a
 kiddie-book. I do want to read a book that takes me
 back to the time when I first started reading books."

 

Jim Lee
  
 WildStorm, All Star
Batman and Robin the
Boy Wonder

 

 "Worldstorm is about making the universe feel fresh
 and new again with the same sense of excitement we had
 back in the 90's without making that the focus of the
 relaunch itself...at least right away."

 

Joe Quesada

 

Editor-In-Chief
Marvel Comics

 

"Like so many things in Civil War it has people
 talking and everyone has an opinion on it and that’s a
 great thing.  It’s been a very long time since a comic
 book has had people talking like this."

"Most of what makes a comic book a comic book is the
 drawing. For instance, if "Sin City" were not drawn in such
 an abstract manner, it would be known just as a good crime book, I think, but instead it has an environment of its own."

 

Stan Lee

 

POW! Entertainment
Marvel Comics

 

"The thing I had in mind was to make it a story against
 bigotry of all sorts, because here were people who
 were certainly different than everybody else, but they were
 good, they were trying to do the right thing."

 

Jeff Smith

 

Bone
Captain Marvel

 

"The best comics are the ones written and drawn
 by a single cartoonist. A book that can give you the
 vision of an author, not of a company."

 

Neil Gaiman

 

Eternals, 1602
Sandman

 

"Ours is not to wonder why, ours is just to
 blink uncomprehendingly at the daylight and
 do what the schedule says"

"GIRLS will be ending at issue #24, (April 2007)"
 Such a sad announcement we had to mark it with a quote.

 

Allan Heinberg

 

Young Avengers,
Wonder Woman

 

"I believe Derek Webb is the missing link
 between The Beatles and Bob Dylan."

"What makes you burn?  Find more of that. (Unless
 it's, you know, paraffin or something)"