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Comic Strip Quotes

Small panels, serious craft.

One creator calls comic strips an heirloom — something intimate, handed down the way you'd inherit a parent's sense of humor. Another insists the medium deserves to stand beside novels and film as real storytelling.

'Jingle Belle' spins out of my love for just sitting down and reading a good, fun Sunday morning comic strip panel.

Quotes by Paul Dini

We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States.

Quotes by Majel Barrett

A comic strip that your parents read when they were young is a curious thing: it's an heirloom, and it's also intimate. You peer through windows and look at the things that made your elders laugh, and then you wonder...

Quotes by Elizabeth McCracken

One of the things you have to be able to do, as a comic strip artist, is to draw things repeatedly from a variety of angles, so you need references, and you find the best picture you can.

Quotes by Dave Gibbons

Able Quotes

I've always felt that the comic strip medium stands equally beside all the other story telling mediums: novels, movies, stage plays, opera, you know, you name it.

Quotes by Dave Gibbons

For a long time I wanted to be a comic strip artist but when I started doing them in my teens they were getting really elaborate with tons of poses and a lot of information.

Quotes by Craig McCracken

Imagine my surprise when, after a lifetime of teaching me to keep personal things to myself, Mom insisted my drawings were the start of a comic strip for millions of people to enjoy.

Quotes by Cathy Guisewite

I wasn't intending to create a comic strip to begin with. So I think I wasn't aware that when the strip started, there had never been a woman's voice quite like this in the newspaper.

Quotes by Cathy Guisewite

The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's reality settled by a doll manufacturer.

Quotes by Bill Watterson

Always Quotes

Looking back Little Lulu was an early feminist, but at the time I just thought she was a really feisty developed comic strip character.

Quotes by Bill Griffith

In America, there's a very long tradition of a comic strip that comes in newspapers, which is not true all over the world. To sell papers, they put color comics in.

Quotes by Ben Katchor

I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn't fully appreciate. But I'm...

Quotes by Ben Affleck

Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out.

Quotes by Alison Bechdel

Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now.

Quotes by Alison Bechdel

Frequently Asked Questions

What do these comic strip quotes emphasize?
Mostly respect for a small, often-underrated format — cartoonists describing comic strips as heirlooms, Sunday rituals, and a storytelling medium equal to novels or film.
Why would someone search for comic strip quotes?
Comic strips carry a specific nostalgia — many people grew up reading the same strips their parents did — so these quotes speak to both craft and memory.
Is there a quote about comic strip technology or innovation?
Yes — one creator mentions helping build one of the earliest fully computerized newspaper strips made in the U.S., tying the format to early digital tools rather than pure hand-drawing.
Do any quotes compare comic strips to other art forms?
Yes, one Artist argues strip cartooning deserves a seat at the same table as novels, movies, stage plays, and opera as a storytelling form worth taking seriously.
What's the more personal or nostalgic take here?
One line describes a strip an earlier generation grew up on as an heirloom and something intimate — a window into what made your parents laugh long before you existed.

There's real pride here from working Artists in the format, including one who helped build an early fully computerized newspaper strip in the U.S., a page people genuinely Appreciate.