I've no objection to the term 'graphic novel,' as long as what it is talking about is actually some sort of graphic work that could conceivably be described as a novel. My main objection to the term is that usually it means a collection of six issues of Spider-Man, or something that does not have the structure or any of the qualities of a novel, but is perhaps roughly the same size.
Alan MooreI'm the king of the 20th century. I'm the boogeyman, the villian, the black sheep of the family.
Alan MooreI try to do things in comics that cannot be repeated by television, by movies, by interactive entertainment.
Alan MooreIn a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it as a kind of projectile. Imagine it is a kind of projectile which has been specially shaped to be aerodynamic, and that your target is the soft grey putty of the reader's brain.
Alan MooreThis city is dying of rabies. Is the best I can do to wipe random flecks of foam from its lips?
Alan Moore