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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

Topics: Argued Artistic Artistic Expression Aware Better Bill Comic Comic Strip Consumer Culture Daily Disposable Eclipsed Even Expression He His Lining Masterpiece Medium Newspaper Our Strip Than Today Tomorrow Too

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On the back of comic books in the 1970s, there was something called the American Seed Company. They would send you a cardboard box full of seeds; kids would sell them door-to-door in the neighborhood and then pick from a catalog of prizes. I bought myself a watch that way.

~Anthony Scaramucci

Topics: American Back Books Bought Box Cardboard Catalog Comic Comic Books Company Full Kids Myself Neighborhood Pick Prizes Seed Seeds Sell Send Something Them Then Watch Way Would You 1970S

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'Modesty Blaise' is not well known in the United States, but in the United Kingdom, she's an institution - especially for a comic book reader of a certain age. She's a wonderful creation, and her strip ran in newspapers for a long time. So whenever female spies come to mind for us, they think of 'Modesty Blaise'.

~Antony Johnston

Topics: Age Book Certain Certain Age Come Comic Comic Book Creation Female Her Institution Kingdom Known Long Long Time Mind Modesty Newspapers Ran Reader She Spies States Strip Think Time United United Kingdom United States Us Well Well Known Whenever Wonderful

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When someone says 'comic book movies', what they inevitably mean is a summer superhero blockbuster, with heavily-muscled and tightly-gluted men (plus the occasional token woman) in tight-fitting costumes punching the living daylights out of one another for two hours.

~Antony Johnston

Topics: Another Blockbuster Book Comic Comic Book Costumes Hours Inevitably Living Mean Men Movies Occasional Out Plus Punching Says Someone Summer Superhero Token Two Woman

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I knew going in that being a single parent would be one of the toughest jobs I'd ever have. I'd been a talk-show host, actor, comic, and on and on, but this gig was going to be my defining moment.

~Arsenio Hall

Topics: Actor Been Being Comic Defining Defining Moment Ever Gig Going Host Jobs Knew Moment Parent Single Single Parent Toughest Would

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When they meet a stand-up comic, people sometimes remark: 'That must be the hardest job in the world.' Among comedians, only Freddie Starr is not embarrassed and slightly appalled by this remark.

~Arthur Smith

Topics: Among Appalled Comedians Comic Embarrassed Hardest Job Meet Must Only People Remark Slightly Sometimes Stand-Up World

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I got cast on 'MADtv' as one of eight permanent cast members chosen from 8,000 comics who'd been screened. For any comic trying to make something of themselves, that was like hitting triple 7s-jackpot.

~Artie Lange

Topics: Any Been Cast Chosen Comic Comics Eight Got Hitting Like Make Members Permanent Something Themselves Triple Trying

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I'm a comic, so I like to stay nocturnal. I work 10 p.m. to 1 a.m.

~Artie Lange

Topics: Comic Like Nocturnal Stay Work

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When I became a standup comic, my hero, one of them, was Richard Pryor, and you know, I think that comedians, like, comedians talk about hacks, and what a hack is, is someone who does stuff that's not original.

~Artie Lange

Topics: About Became Comedians Comic Does Hack Hero Know Like Original Pryor Richard Richard Pryor Someone Standup Stuff Talk Them Think Who You I Think

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Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme - it's taken very seriously. So I tried to do as much learning as I could about it so I wasn't mean or anything.

~Ashley Scott

Topics: About Anything Being Book Comic Comic Book Could Extreme Fan Learning Mean Much Seeing Seriously Taken Thrown Tried Very I Tried

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