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" I live in New York and California, and I get to travel. "

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" I really kind of always wondered, if I did Superman, what I would do, and what I would be able to do, because it's a little harder for me, being kind of a realistic guy, to imagine doing a character who almost has no limits to his powers. "

" I think, sometimes, if you get too much attention, then everybody watches you more closely, and they make these broad generalizations about you that aren't really true. "

" Nobody is looking for work who doesn't need work. That's why we look for work. "

" Sometimes you're forced to do the cover before the story is done. "

" My view is that comic books are meant to be long-form stories. They're meant to be novels. "

" I have always felt that effect covers are very good covers. They bring you into the story if you pay attention to them. "

" One of the reasons that DC, Marvel, and other comic book companies have always asked me to do covers and variant covers is because they know that when they tell me 'icon,' I jump over their words, and I give them an iconic cover - but while I'm doing it, there is going to be an idea there. "

" The fights that I had with DC and Marvel, I won. And guess what? They profited by it. "

" It used to be that comic strips were the big thing, and comic books were toilet paper. "

" I don't get involved in criticizing or extolling really good artists who do their job. That's for other people. "

" Back in the olden days when we were rubbing sticks together, everybody wanted to have a comic strip, to live in Westport Connecticut, to have a Jaguar and to have a wife and two and a half kids and to have a girl in town in their studio in Manhattan that they'd romance, and then they'd have people ghost their strip. It was like this big dream. "

" Most of what we know or assume to know is wrong one way or another. "

" When I did get into comic books, it was after a whole other career, and when I got into comic books, they didn't even know who I was. "

" For me, Jerry Siegel and Joe Schuster's character was Superman. "

" Motion comics are a medium all their own. It is certainly not animation, in which a large number of artists do tens and even hundreds of thousands of drawings. The animation, or 'the reality,' is created in a computer, and the work of the original artist is the work. Nor is it a comic book. You can't turn the pages. You can't read the dialogue. "

" Nothing is gained by not being kind and courteous. "

" What's interesting about 'The Brave and Bold #85' is it's a book in which I re-created, or created, Green Arrow. "

" As far as I know, no kid ever bought a children's book himself with his own money, but they'll buy comic books. So we better make them good. "

" Not too many people draw black people as well as I do. "

" I think of myself as a storytelling, and one of the reasons why people have held my stuff close to them is because it's one thing to draw pretty pictures, and it's another thing to create a story. That's what I've always done, whether it be for advertising clients or commercial clients or comic books. My hand is in there, and I am the storyteller. "

" I created the first black superhero who was not a gangbanger or an African chief but was rather a college graduate and a professional, which I think is a big accomplishment. "

" People tend not to want to question dogma. But I'm afraid of dogma. "

" I want a Superman that men will look up to - that somehow he manages to go out and work out and add muscles to his body that he wasn't born with necessarily, but that developed - as a person who takes care of himself and takes care of his health. "

" I know Coney Island more than I know Queens and Brooklyn! And I understand everything about it - Coney Island is my home. "

" I did work more realistically: I used real anatomy, faces with expressions - not Dick Tracy with his one slip of the mouth and that's it, but actual expressions on the faces that made the characters look like they were saying what was in the balloons. "

" I used to work on a carousel on a boardwalk in Coney Island. "

" I think that we want to believe in Superman. "

" As it turned out, if you look at the history, everything in superhero comic books pretty much lies between Superman and Batman: Superman being the greatest superhero there is, and Batman being the one of the few superheroes who has no superpowers and is, in fact, not a superhero. "

" I think that Curt Swan, when he did Superman for the longest time, became the definitive Superman artist, and everybody got it. That made him very, very special in the annals of comic books. "