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Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn't work out. But maybe because it didn't work out, that's why I ended up on 'Breaking Bad;' I don't know. Bill Burr

I went to an art school in Brooklyn and painted Fine Art, if that's what you'd call it for eight years in New York, until I saw the first underground comics in the East Village Other. Bill Griffith

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But with comics you're reading and assimilating an image simultaneously, instead of just reading or watching the tube. Bill Sienkiewicz

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But there's still an avenue for smaller comics and personal expression. Bill Sienkiewicz

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And that, to me, is the main attraction to comics. It's an avenue to say what you want to say. Bill Sienkiewicz

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And I've never viewed comics as assignments for the client. Bill Sienkiewicz

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The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, 'Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.' Billy Gardell

You know, I'm playing the Mirage in Vegas, the main room... About 5 percent of all comics end up as the main headliner on the Vegas Strip, so that's a big deal for me. Getting to do my stand-up the way I have this summer is really what I've dreamed of since I was about 10 years old. Billy Gardell

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And then as I got older, see, I think a lot of times with comics, your life kind of permeates your act. Whatever is happening in your life is what's going on on stage. So if you're angry in your life, then that's going to be on stage. If you're looking for the guy that's just going to make you laugh for an hour and forget about, that's me. Billy Gardell

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When I first started out, 'Time' magazine did an article on what it called 'the sick comics,' and they were myself, Shelley Berman, Nichols & May, Jonathan Winters, Lenny Bruce, and Mort Sahl. We were considered 'sick.' Bob Newhart

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I have worked with a great many comedians as opposed to comics, although I have worked with comics as well, I make the distinction. Bobby Darin

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I had been working on this series called 'Everything Dies,' and it was basically me doing non-fiction essays, responding to religion and stuff like that, and I really got into this ideas of telling factual stories via comics. Box Brown

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A lot of comics make good actors. Actors make bad comics. They can't do it the other way round. Bradley Walsh

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My interests were in fantasy more than comics growing up. Brandon Routh

More Comics Were Up Than Fantasy Interests Growing Growing Up

I didn't really like superheroes. I liked monsters and war comics. Brian Azzarello

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I'm always interested in using comics in different ways. Brian Azzarello

Ways Always Comics Different Interested Using Different Ways

I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations. Brian K. Vaughan

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Print and digital comics will always coexist. Brian K. Vaughan

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I don't think anything connects with an audience as deeply as a long-form serialized drama, and much as I love television, I've always found a good ongoing comics series to be much more immersive. Brian K. Vaughan

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