The book paints moving biographical details with honesty and emotion and an eye for effective detail

“No less than Charlie Chaplin, its only pop rival for the affection of Jazz Age aesthetes, Krazy Kat synthesized a particular mixture of sweetness and slapstick, playful fantasy and emotional brutality.”

When a comics master reviewed a comic "book" in the Voice

“James Warren, founder and publisher of ‘Famous Monsters,’ developed an overactive imagination because his parents left him alone all day.”

Will Eisner's work at its best contained a kind of urban poetry, a lyric strain similar to such di­verse Brooklynites as Irwin Shaw, Henry Miller, and Norman Mailer

A Story of Labor, Lies, Losses, and Libel Suits

“The most popular Marvel hero has a terrible identity problem, a marked inferiority complex, and a fear of women. He is anti-social, castration­-ridden, racked with Oedipal guilt, and accident-prone”

Interdimensional Identity Politics and Market Share: The Crisis of the Negro Superhero

“I would like to create characters that will resonate a century from now, even to people who are not living in a gay subculture or under the gun of bigotry.”

Looking back on the publication that endowed America with a B.S. detector