Joe Simon Quotations

When I and the other young artists were working in comics, our work carried with it a particularly American slant. After all, we were Americans drawing and writing about things that touched us. As it turned out, the early work was, you might say, a comic book version of Jazz.

He is a strong advocate for the ABC House, putting on a benefit shooting match which raises thousands of dollars for the house,

Which editor? I can't think of one editor I worked with as an editor. The various companies did have editors but we always acted as our own editor, so the question has no answer.

To look back and know that I have had a pivotal role in the development of comics is something I'm very proud of, although it's not something I think about unless someone brings it up.

Both of us couldn't let a man die.

The blood was like paint, just pouring out of him. We were just panicking. We knew the options were limited.

I like The Geek, a rag-doll pretending to be human. The Prez, an adolescent in the White House, just like the current occupant.

In the 1950s we use to feel that television was taking away our comic readership; with today's exciting, powerfully visual movies I have to wonder about their effect on the kids' loyalty to the comic book medium all over again.

How could Captain America not have been a reaction to the times. The Nazis were a menace, an evil in the world. The US hadn't yet entered the war when Jack and I did Captain America, so maybe he was our way at lashing out against the Nazi menace.

Comic art is just different. It's art on its own terms.