Quotes by Ted Naifeh - Page 1

I think all artists need to try to improve, or their work gets stale.
Ted Naifeh / Comic Book Writer
Artist
Stale
Thinking
Trying
Copy Quote
A story really isn't truly a story until it reaches its climax and conclusion.
Ted Naifeh / Comic Book Writer
Climax
Conclusion
Stories
Story
Truly
Copy Quote
Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader's attention.
Ted Naifeh / Comic Book Writer
Design
Attention
Character
Hook
Reader
Grab
Requires
Story
Copy Quote
Character design, like story design, requires a hook to grab the reader’s attention.
Ted Naifeh / Comic Book Writer
Design
Attention
Character
Copy Quote
I think theres too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques.
Ted Naifeh / Comic Book Writer
Color
Technique
Thinking
Copy Quote
I think there's too much saturated color in comics, thanks to digital color techniques.
Ted Naifeh / Comic Book Writer
Color
Digital
Saturated
Thanks
Comics
Techniques
Copy Quote
Theres something about girls and unicorns thats deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.
Ted Naifeh / Comic Book Writer
Girl
Childhood
Meaningful
Copy Quote
There's something about girls and unicorns that's deep and meaningful. Something about childhood.
Ted Naifeh / Comic Book Writer
Childhood
Meaningful
Copy Quote
I think one of the reasons Stephen King's stories work so well is that he places his stories in spooky old New England, where a lot of American folk legends came from.
Ted Naifeh / Comic Book Writer
England
Legends
New England
Spooky
Folk
Places
Reasons
Copy Quote
I love gothic monsters, but I like to root them more firmly in the traditional folklore from which they sprang. Or at least, I like to evoke the feeling of those folk stories.
Ted Naifeh / Comic Book Writer
Evoke
Feelings
Folklore
Gothic
Monsters
Roots
Traditional
Firmly
Folk
Root
Copy Quote
Us comics guys tend to get really good at the things we draw a lot. I'm good at creepy old forests, Victorian houses, underground goblin cities, and beautiful but creepy fairies.
Ted Naifeh / Comic Book Writer
Cities
Creepy
Forests
Victorian
Comics
Draw
Fairies
Guys
Houses
Tend
Underground
Copy Quote
I get tired of stories that keep going and going and never get anywhere. It's like a promise that's never fulfilled. Stories need endings. Otherwise, they aren't really stories. Just pages.
Ted Naifeh / Comic Book Writer
Fulfilled
Pages
Promise
Stories
Tired
Anywhere
Endings
Otherwise
Copy Quote
I like characters with character, not just pretty faces. Anyway, I think people can be both grotesque and beautiful at the same time. Look at Mick Jagger in the seventies. Look at Angelina Jolie.
Ted Naifeh / Comic Book Writer
Faces
Grotesque
Jagger
Seventies
Angelina Jolie
Anyway
Mick Jagger
Copy Quote
Urban Fantasy is a subgenre pretty much designed for teenagers. It's pretty twee, but I adore it. I've been trying to come up with an Urban Fantasy comic ever since I'd read the Nancy Collins 'Sonja Blue' series years ago.
Ted Naifeh / Comic Book Writer
Adore
Blue
Comic
Fantasy
Nancy
Series
Urban
Years Ago
Collins
Designed
Teenagers
Copy Quote
When I first starting conceiving series like 'Courtney,' 'Polly,' 'How Loathsome,' etc., I was shooting for closed story-arcs but open-ended concepts. Then I started realizing I was committing myself to potentially endless series.
Ted Naifeh / Comic Book Writer
Conceiving
Concepts
Courtney
Endless
Etc
Realizing
Shooting
Closed
Committing
Loathsome
Open-Ended
Potentially
Copy Quote
I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
Ted Naifeh / Comic Book Writer
Time Good Me
Alien
Good Stories
Wizard
Oz
Terminator
Wizard Of Oz
Copy Quote
Artists forget than the first purpose of a comic character is to convey emotion. Everything else, like realism, or other kinds of virtuosity, is an optional extra. If you sacrifice expression for the sake of other concerns, you're putting the cart before the horse.
Ted Naifeh / Comic Book Writer
Comic
Emotion
Horse
Optional
Realism
Sacrifice
Sake
Cart
Concerns
Convey
Everything Else
Extra
Copy Quote
I dug up some old John Buscema 'Conan' comics. Man, when Alfredo Alcala was inking, that was some of the most beautiful black and white comic art ever published. The stories are good, too, though early '70s comics based on Conan is a festival of sexist, racist stereotypes.
Ted Naifeh / Comic Book Writer
Black And White
Comic
Conan
Based
Dug
Festival
John
Most Beautiful
Published
Stereotypes
Copy Quote
Basically, Urban Fantasy means D&D in New York. Ordinary people have no idea that they share the world with fantastic, supernatural creatures. It can't just be vampires or werewolves; it has to be a whole continuum of fantastic beings, with their own society within society.
Ted Naifeh / Comic Book Writer
Continuum
Fantastic
Fantasy
No Idea
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Urban
Society World People
Just Be
Supernatural
Vampires
Werewolves
Copy Quote
The living werewolves have genuine needs and desires, which, though they may oppose ours, are valid. Even if they want to eat humans, you can't really call them evil, any more than mice can call cats evil, or chickens can call humans evil. It's all just a matter of where you're standing.
Ted Naifeh / Comic Book Writer
Chickens
Genuine
Humans
Mice
Standing
Cats
Desires
Oppose
Ours
Valid
Werewolves
Copy Quote
I think about 'The Simpsons,' which has been going on for 25 years. Homer is still in his late 30's. Lisa is 8, Bart is 10. Their stories are told. Yet the series keeps going on and on like a zombie that won't lie down and die. That feels forced and unnatural. The characters never change, grow, age.
Ted Naifeh / Comic Book Writer
Unnatural
Zombie
Bart
Forced
Homer
Simpsons
The Simpsons
Copy Quote
Some of the best art in the world is collaborative, a mix of voices that are stronger together than separate. Take the Beatles, for example. Or every great movie ever made. We like to say they're the director's vision, but really, they're huge collaborations between directors, writers, actors, even producers.
Ted Naifeh / Comic Book Writer
Stronger
Collaborations
For Example
Great Movie
Mix
Voices
Copy Quote
The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.
Ted Naifeh / Comic Book Writer
Adventure
Bunch
Boarding
Boarding School
Discovers
Queen
Pirates
Proper
Sheltered
Copy Quote
When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself.
Ted Naifeh / Comic Book Writer
Dull
Genre
Adventurers
Believing
Chip
Define
Shoulder
Types
Copy Quote

Related Comic Book Writer Authors

Ted Naifeh
Comic Book Writer
Sunday, Jun 20, 1971
Steve Ditko
Comic Book Writer
Wednesday, Nov 02, 1927
Stan Lee
Comic Book Writer
Thursday, Dec 28, 1922
Robert Kirkman
Comic Book Writer
Thursday, Nov 30, 1978
Robert Kanigher
Comic Book Writer
Friday, Jun 18, 1915
Tuesday, May 07, 2002
Rick Remender
Comic Book Writer
Tuesday, Feb 06, 1973
Matt Wagner
Comic Book Writer
Monday, Oct 09, 1961
Matt Fraction
Comic Book Writer
Monday, Dec 01, 1975
Mark Millar
Comic Book Writer
Wednesday, Dec 24, 1969
Mark Evanier
Comic Book Writer
Sunday, Mar 02, 1952
Marc Andreyko
Comic Book Writer
Saturday, Jun 20, 1970
Kurt Busiek
Comic Book Writer
Friday, Sep 16, 1960

View All Comic Book Writer Quotes

Top Authors

Sun Tzu
Strategist
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Peter Drucker
Author
Friday, Nov 19, 1909
Friday, Nov 11, 2005
Aldous Huxley
Writer
Thursday, Jul 26, 1894
Friday, Nov 22, 1963
Mahatma Gandhi
Civil Rights Leader
Saturday, Oct 02, 1869
Friday, Jan 30, 1948
Elon Musk
Investor
Monday, Jun 28, 1971
Friedrich Nietzsche
Philologist
Tuesday, Oct 15, 1844
Saturday, Aug 25, 1900
Walt Whitman
Poet
Monday, May 31, 1819
Saturday, Mar 26, 1892
Nelson Mandela
Former President Of South Africa
Thursday, Jul 18, 1918
Thursday, Dec 05, 2013
Kobe Bryant
Basketball Player
Wednesday, Aug 23, 1978
Chanakya
Teacher
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Thursday, Jan 01, 1970
Robert Frost
Poet
Thursday, Mar 26, 1874
Tuesday, Jan 29, 1963
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Poet
Wednesday, Oct 21, 1772
Friday, Jul 25, 1834
Lucy Larcom
Poet
Friday, Mar 05, 1824
Monday, Apr 17, 1893
Robin Williams
Actor
Saturday, Jul 21, 1951
Monday, Aug 11, 2014
Walt Disney
Animator
Thursday, Dec 05, 1901
Thursday, Dec 15, 1966

View All Authors

Ted Naifeh Quotes - Page 1

App & Tools

Related Comic Book Writer Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page

Stay Connected

App & Tools

Related Comic Book Writer Authors

Popular Topic Tags

Top Authors

Share This Page