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🇬🇧Alan Moore

Literature

b. 1953

"There is a kind of synergy between the different forms of work, you’ll learn things from one sort of work that will have tremendous application in another. They all tend to pull each other forward."

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🇨🇱Alejandro Jodorowsky

Religion

Surrealism

b. 1929

"That is the marvel of true art, that no one has yet found a way to commercialize it."

"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island and at the bottom of the Spanish Main... and best of all, you can enjoy these riches every day of your life."

"I love all the series I’ve done pretty much equally.I haven’t done a single series that I have been embarrassed by. Some of the movies are better than others."

"A true graphic novel can be very satisfying and it really is a form of story telling that is not a book and not a movie."

"Mr. Richard Corben... a genuine giant of his chosen medium.|Alan Moore"

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🇺🇸Harry Harrison (writer)

Literature

1925–2012

"Without being too clinical, let’s say his brain was affected."

"This is past, and it really comes from a very dark moment of my life. Dying is...When people say there is no alternative, there is always an alternative - to die, for example. It's a choice. You always have this choice."

"A zebra can't drive a moon-buggy. Or any other sort of car for that matter."

"It finally dawned on me that if I was going to do my own show, all those things I lectured about and obsessed about would make for an interesting world,"

"I was a young man. I was still growing out of the East Side. The only real politics I knew was that if a guy liked Hitler, I’d beat the stuffing out of him and that would be it."

"I first followed the comics of Tagawa Suihō and Yokoyama Ryūichi. But suddenly, once I became devoted to Disney, I set out to copy and master that stuffed-animal style, eventually ending up with how I now draw."

"Jezanna: Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chain store jobs!"

"As you may have noticed, a hurricane didn't kill me yesterday. I will celebrate my continued life with some ice cream this afternoon."

"When you’re a cartoonist, you sort of have to be, like, sensitive – or maybe open’s a better word – to what’s going on around you. When you’re an attorney, you’re just like a bulldog with your head down."

"Only when you accept that one day you'll die can you let go, and make the best out of life. And that's the big secret. That's the miracle."

"We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation."

"Hobbes: Do you think there's a God?Calvin: Well, somebody's out to get me!"

"Whether you think we belong in Iraq or not, we can't tune it out; we have to remain mindful of the terrible losses that individual soldiers are suffering in our name."

"Some is more equal than others, as is well known. It ain't that your majority is outnumbered, you're just out-surrounded."

"As Norman McLaren said, animation is not a bunch of drawings that move — it's a bunch of drawings of movement."

"Sue Coe … has done more through her paintings and prints to help animals than any other artist in history."

"A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter."

"We use only the finest days of the week in this dish."

"It is not size or age or childishness that separates children from adults. It is "responsibility."

"A gun and a smoke. Ask for more, you're a greedy bastard."

"Matt Groening's Bio at Rock Bottom Remainders' Website"

"Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable."

"Despite the fact that my weapons and armor are in desperate need of repair, I blow the entire reward on ale and whores."

"Running Out of Stuff to Do? Try Freaking Out. If you get through all of these suggestions, try doing them again!"

"There were other Batman writers throughout the years but they could never capture the style and flavor of Bill's scripts. Bill was the best writer in the business and it seemed that he was destined to write Batman."

"Christ's finished sacrifice was sufficient. By participating in the mass, Roman Catholics are calling Him a liar! It's an abomination in the eyes of God."

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