
“It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.”
Epistle dedicatory
The Double Dealer (1694)
Source: Novalis: Philosophical Writings
“It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.”
Epistle dedicatory
The Double Dealer (1694)
“The role of boredom in human history is underrated.”
Doing Lennon, p. 266 (Originally published in Analog, April 1975)
In Alien Flesh (1986)
“I despise the comic industry, but I will always love the comic medium.”
New York Press interview (15 June 2006) http://www.nypress.com/19/24/books/feature2.cfm
Martha Fawbush, "Bravo Concerts opens with excellent performance of Mozart classic". Asheville Citizen Times (October, 2003)
"Important New Paper on the Urban Effect of Temperature and Other Climate Metrics," Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr. Research Group Weblog (2007-06-22) http://climatesci.org/2007/06/22/important-new-paper-on-the-urban-effect-on-temperature-and-other-climate-metrics/
As quoted in Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1441185755 p. 5
“The role of parliaments is crucial in ensuring human rights protection while promoting trade.”
Report of the Independent Expert on the promotion and protection of all human rights, civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights, including the right to development https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/G16/151/19/PDF/G1615119.pdf?OpenElement.
2016, Report submitted to the UN Human Rights Council
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/alan-moore-the-reluctant-hero-64407.html
Context: If I write a crappy comic book, it doesn't cost the budget of an emergent Third World nation. When you've got these kinds of sums involved in creating another two hours of entertainment for Western teenagers, I feel it crosses the line from being merely distasteful to being wrong. To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate — unlike most films.