Top 44 Comic Strip Quotes

Here we have the best Comic Strip Quotes from famous authors such as John Updike, Alison Bechdel, Stephan Pastis, Matt Groening, Ridley Scott. Find the perfect quotation from our collection.

For a long time, I was under the impression that ‘Terry and the Pirates‘ was the best comic strip in the United States.

John Updike

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.

Alison Bechdel

It seems so absurd to get really mad with a cartoonist over a comic strip. It’s sort of like getting in a fight with a circus clown outside your house. It’s not going to end well.

Stephan Pastis

Sometimes people try to read into my strip and find out what my state of mind is. And I can say if I’m in a good mood, generally the comic strip starts out in a good mood, but the punchline is very negative and sour.

Matt Groening

‘Blade Runner‘ was a comic strip. It was a comic strip! It was a very dark comic strip. Comic metaphorically.

Ridley Scott

The key to any good comic strip or television sitcom is to reset the board at the end of the episode because people like familiarity.

Jeff Kinney

Bill Watterson argued with his medium even as he eclipsed it. He was all too aware that no artistic expression better exemplifies our disposable consumer culture than the daily newspaper comic strip: today‘s masterpiece is tomorrow‘s birdcage lining.

Anthony Marra

The key to any good comic strip or television sitcom is to reset the board at the end of the episode because people like familiarity.

Jeff Kinney

Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield’s comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield.

Jim Davis

My problems with ‘Bonanza’ were problems of communication. What we discussed would be, never was. I thought it would be a sophisticated show. Instead it never went beyond the comic strip level.

Pernell Roberts

A comic strip has a rhythm and a pattern, and you got to get in and out quick. So you set up a joke, tell the joke, and done.

Stephan Pastis

I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That’s what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life.

Matt Groening

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

Alison Bechdel

Matt Groening

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.

Bill Watterson

Cheating on a quiz show? That’s sort of like plagiarizing a comic strip.

Paul Scofield

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don’t go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

Ralph Fiennes

Charles Schultz is a really interesting case. He wrote that comic strip and drew it himself from beginning to end, and it’s a work of genius. It’s very simply drawn, but it has some really deep emotions that you don’t expect in a silly-looking comic strip.

Matt Groening

I draw a weekly comic strip called Life in Hell, which is syndicated in about 250 newspapers. That’s what I did before The Simpsons, and what I plan to do for the rest of my life.

Matt Groening

‘Blade Runner‘ was a comic strip. It was a comic strip! It was a very dark comic strip. Comic metaphorically.

Ridley Scott

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.

Alison Bechdel

I am certain things to certain generations. Lots of people remember me from the ‘Comic Strip,’ there was the ‘Vindaloo’ song for the 1998 World Cup, then it was playing the Sheriff of Nottingham in the BBC’s ‘Robin Hood.’

Keith Allen

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.

Cathy Guisewite

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don’t go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

Ralph Fiennes

I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married in real life. So both are shocks to me.

Cathy Guisewite

When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn’t write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.

Joyce Carol Oates

I never thought Cathy would get married in the comic strip. And I also thought I would never get married in real life. So both are shocks to me.

Cathy Guisewite

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

Paul Dini

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.

Cathy Guisewite

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

Bill Griffith

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.

Cathy Guisewite

I was in a position where I was going to wait for the ‘Inbetweeners’ film to come out before I decided what I was going to do next, but as soon I was asked to be involved with ‘Comic Strip’, I was incredibly flattered and jumped at it.

James Buckley

The surprising thing was, it’s actually easier working on animation than working on a comic strip, because Garfield is animated in my head.

Jim Davis

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.

Craig McCracken

You can write a little and can draw a little, but there’s necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.

Stephan Pastis

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.

Dave Gibbons

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.

Dave Gibbons

I tried to do a comic strip. I came close, and I met with Universal Press Syndicate in Kansas City, but ultimately, they did not go with my strip.

Jake Tapper

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 whether the laugh really belongs to you.

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.

Dave Gibbons

You can write a little and can draw a little, but there’s necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.

Stephan Pastis

I admit TV is a far cry from the films that I started my career with, like ‘Ek Doctor Ki Maut.’ It’s like reading Chekov and then going on to a comic strip.

Pankaj Kapur

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

Bill Griffith

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.

Craig McCracken

Top 44 Comic Strip Quotes

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