Quotes of the Week: A Straight-Line Drawing Machine

“Face front, true believers! I can’t draw a straight line with a ruler and a straight-line drawing machine, which is why I hired artists to draw my comics! If you can’t draw, you should hire artists, too! Excelsior!”
Mike Sterling, predicting the entire text of Stan Lee’s How to Draw Comics.

Isn’t it instructive how Ben [Caldwell]’s work means that the [Wonder Woman] costume-before-JMS is transformed from cheesecake to something impressive, magical and appropriate?
–Colin from Too Busy Thinking About My Comics, pointing out that it’s not the costume; it’s the artist.

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