“It’s hard to believe Lenore has been bopping around, destroying stuff for fifteen years now. I really wasted my life, man.”

– cartoonist Roman Dirge, on the 15th anniversary of Lenore

“Note that those ‘surprising’ new releases are all shoujo. In fact, look back at that top ten list and you’ll see that every title on it is at least girl-friendly. Bleach, Naruto, and Fullmetal Alchemist may technically be shonen, but they all have a lot of female readers. And two of the top ten, Vampire Knight and Absolute Boyfriend, are Shojo Beat titles, as is The Gentlemen’s Alliance+.”

– blogger Brigid Alverson, analyzing ICv2.com’s list of Top 10 manga properties

“I like comics because they can look as high-budget as you want and it only costs you ink! It’s a fun medium to experiment with ideas, visuals and storytelling.”

– actor/author/comics writer Bruce Campbell, on the appeal of comics

“Crime fiction in particular is a genre about losers, characters (even smart ones) who for whatever reasons make very bad decisions and have to deal with the consequences of them. Other types of stories, superheroes for instance, are about winners. But losers are much more interesting to write about than winners. In crime, as it’s written today, you don’t have to worry about who the hero and who the villain is; those roles are fluid and mutable. Its main downside is that it requires discipline, you’re restricted as a writer to real world considerations. Paradoxically, that also makes it a lot freer that many genres where you can just let your imagination run amok. In crime stories, you really have to focus on the story.”

– Two Guns writer Steven Grant, on the appeal of the crime genre

“I met Damon at the super-geek-happy-clubhouse (first rule of the super-geek-happy-clubhouse — there is no super-geek-happy-clubhouse). Damon is one of the kindest, nicest people around, so I just begged and cried and held tight to his ankle until he said yes.”

– writer Brad Meltzer, on asking Lost executive producer Damon Lindelof to write the introduction to Justice League of America, Vol. 1

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