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" Some people don't realize that I did most of the 'Deadmans.' People don't know that I wrote two 'Spectres.' "

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" What populates a comic-book convention? Well there's actors, and there's dealers, and there's comic-book artists and writers, and there's cosplay people, toy sales people, people who are selling trading cards, and people selling swords. It's not a flea market. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The thing about covers that's relatively important to remember is that it doesn't matter how good an artist you are: if you don't have good ideas, the covers don't stand out. "

" Believe me, when I do a story - if you read 'Batman: Odyssey,' I never do something without there being a reason. There's always a reason, and you will find out in the story. I'm looking to entertain you. "

" 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. "

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

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

" There's a bad thing that we have in America, and that is a slow, sticky way that we get out of prejudice. We get out of it very, very slowly. It's like walking through tar. But we're getting out; things are changing. "

" Every business makes big mistakes along the way. "

" I like Captain America because I liked Captain America when I was younger. "

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

" I did the X-Men, and I plotted the stories, and Roy Thomas dialogued them. And that first set of comic books that I did are the plot that the first X-Men movie was taken from, where Magneto invents a machine that turns regular humans into mutants. That's my idea. "

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

" The first work I ever did in comics was for Archie Comics, and I didn't do that very long because I did other stuff. "

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

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

" Everybody's 'odyssey' is a little bit different. Batman's is his own and unique to him. "

" Of all the mutants on Earth, Professor X could easily pass as a human. "

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

" 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 changed the layout of comic books in general. When I came in, layout design wasn't really part of what you did. It was all just panels, panels, panels. So when I came in, I thought, 'Nah, let's change that,' and I designed the page. "

" The 'Superman vs. Muhammad Ali' book was printed in every free country in the world, OK? Now, it's so good in its way that we can go in and make fun of it and feel good about it. "

" Times have changed. And as the audience changes, so do the superheroes. "

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

" You could say everybody's a fan of Jack Kirby. I would say I'm a fan of Jack Kirby. I'm a fan of Jack Kirby the man. "

" 'The Dark Knight Rises,' it turns out, is a classic Batman epic. "

" What's happened is that every time I go to a convention or go into a comic book shop is that people drag me off into a corner and beat me up and go, 'When are you going to do Batman again?' "

" People lie when they get upset. "