Top 15 Dave Sim Quotes

Canadian cartoonist and publisher (b. 1956)

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(born May 17, 1956, in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian comic-book writer and artist. Sim is best known as the creator of the 6,000-page graphic novel (1977–2004).

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Anything done for the first time unleashes a demon. (Cover and title of Cerebus #65, August 1984, collected in Church & State I, p. 7 and 273)

Cerebus: The valuable lesson is that you can get what you want and still not be very happy... (p. 296)

Oscar: In a society where dissenting viewpoints are suppressed, those viewpoints are potent and dangerous... Where dissent is tolerated, it rapidly becomes quaint and is viewed as un-sophisticated; people merely amuse themselves with the expression of contrary opinion. (p. 41)

No companies are ever going to pay you enough money to sue them successfully. (pp. 50-51)

The greatest mistake you can make is to say that your work is better than a lot of the shit that's out there. No doubt. But being better than shit is not exactly a shining credential. (p. 30)

Get out of your own way. (p.28)

Stop trying to impress some art-school teacher with a stick up his butt whose opinions you never respected from the time you entered his class until you left it 10 years ago. Draw like you. (p. 27)

...there is very little about self-publishing a comic book that can be taught, but everything about it can be learned. (p. 21)

In any creative field--any creative field--you must first understand that you have no value whatsoever. Your work has no value whatsoever. You are completely worthless. Whatever potential you have is just that--potential--and when you are discussing self-publishing a comic book, you have about the same chance of success as 10 thousand others. (p. 21)

The first five years that I did Cerebus I could have made more money baby-sitting (that isn't a joke). Five years. Think about it. (p. 20)

In my experience women are like cats. When you don't want them you can't get rid of them and when you do want them it's like trying to pick up lint with a magnet. (p. 267)

Because I say what is empirically true: nothing exists except God, I am deemed to be insane. (ibid, p. 28)

[A]n attractive lie is always going to be more popular than a hard truth. (No. 11, p. 27)

I take it as a given that God's knowledge of the Cerebus storyline dwarfs my own as God's knowledge of everything dwarfs my own. (#2, p. 9)

Pointing out that there's a turd lying on the carpet is not the same as shitting on the carpet.(p. 75)