Robert C Harvey Quotes

“Comics ... are sometimes four-legged and sometimes two-legged and sometimes fly and sometimes don’t ...”

“Comics are a sub-set of pictorial narrative; therefore, all comics are pictorial narratives, but not all pictorial narratives are comics.”

“And we enjoy comics best in solitary, by ourselves, not in crowds; although large numbers of people read comics, they generally do it by themselves, in silence.”

“In short, comics lacks the precision it ought to have for ordinary communication let alone serious philosophical deliberations.”

“As every schoolboy knows, comics do not stand alone at microphones in the dark. Indeed, we cannot even read them in the dark. We need light, the more, the better.”

“The confusion inherent in the word comics has been apparent to those writing in the filed for years. The word has a plural form but is singular in application.”

.. to employ a metaphor as mixed as the medium itself, defining comics entails cutting a Gordian-knotted enigma wrapped in a mystery ...”

“And in its singular form, comic, it can be an adjective for something humorous or another name for a comedian.”