Michael Kupperman quotes

“Certainly I enjoy the outré and I enjoy artistic comics and surrealism in comics very much. But the decision I made and have stuck with and refined was the decision to try to be funny and communicate humor. Once you put that ahead of everything else, it resolves those other questions for you.”
-- Michael Kupperman

#Decision Quotes #Trying Quotes #Artistic Quotes

“What I'm trying to do with Thrizzle is create the experience of a humor magazine, even if it's just one person. So that's involved me trying to simulate different styles and create a feeling of some contrast and variation, which is obviously very different from Snake 'N' Bacon.”
-- Michael Kupperman

#Feelings Quotes #Style Quotes #Trying Quotes

“In early comics, you see the amazing awkwardness and bizarre reasoning in the storyline, and it's because comics hadn't really been invented yet. There was no format for them to follow. They were just making it up. So I try to incorporate that kind of awkwardness in my comics quite frequently, which is odd. In some ways, I can't be as awkward as I'd like. But I do think that's one way in which my comics are unusual, because I will try to make the artwork look bad, occasionally.”
-- Michael Kupperman

#Thinking Quotes #Awkward Quotes #Trying Quotes

“That's how I've made a living for years: doing illustrations for comics and magazines. And I'm still doing it. Though I'm really trying to make efforts to have other career choices, because it's just so unstable.”
-- Michael Kupperman

#Choices Quotes #Effort Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Working in magazines these days is like one of those horror movies where people keep leaving the room and not coming back.”
-- Michael Kupperman

#People Quotes #Leaving Quotes #Horror Quotes

“Twitter is just a great joke laboratory. You go in there and there are so many witty people that I know any joke I make is going to have a response with at least 10 great jokes coming back.”
-- Michael Kupperman

#Witty Quotes #People Quotes #Response Quotes

“I believe that decisions about the timing and manner of death belong to the individual as a human right. I believe it is wrong to withhold medical methods of terminating life painlessly and swiftly when an individual has a rational and clear-minded sustained wish to end his or her life.”

“Money coming in says I've made the right marketing decisions”

“Be brave and fearless to know that even if you do make a wrong decision, you're making it for a good reason.”

“In trying to avoid one sin I've committed another.”

“Try lighting your house by prayer instead of electricity and see which one works.”

“Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.”

“Beginning with the first bite, and for every bite after, that try to chew ten times.”

Source : Aaron Hoopes (2010). “Zen Anti-Diet: Mindful Eating for Health, Vitality and Weight Loss”, p.14, Aaron Hoopes

“Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.”

Source : Twitter post from Feb 24, 2013

“I try to be as courteous as possible and sometimes try to tell my fans that as much as I appreciate their support, there are times where I need to be able to have an uninterrupted dinner or not have to take a bunch of pictures or just be able to do some of the normal things.”

“It is a lifetime effort to come to grips with being an artistic person.”