The power of monsters is, it is a way of giving almost tangible substance to fears, beliefs, things that aren't real. You can coalesce it and draw it…

- Stephen R. Bissette

I think all kids understand from a very tender age that dinosaurs were real. They really walked around. That instantly sets them apart from monsters.…

- Stephen R. Bissette

I, as a storyteller, was asking questions no one in science had apparently asked. What happens in a nest of tyrannosaurs? They're precocial, meaning …

- Stephen R. Bissette

When you're making your living as a writer or an artist or a musician, you kind of live in a trance. You're sort of in the day-to-day world, you're c…

- Stephen R. Bissette

I had thought comics could only be one thing, and that was what mainstream comics were selling us. And the undergrounders proved anything you had in …

- Stephen R. Bissette

I hate superheroes. I always hated superheroes. From the time I was a little kid, I could believe in a 50-foot gorilla trashing New York City before …

- Stephen R. Bissette

Horror is one of the few genres - romance and comedy are the other two that come to mind - that's all emotion-driven. It's not a rational genre, like…

- Stephen R. Bissette

If you have birds, or if you're a herpetologist and raise reptiles - you look in those eyes, and there is nothing there that's human. I mean, they do…

- Stephen R. Bissette

If we can't get more John Rovnaks in this world, let's all support the John Rovnak we've got.

- Stephen R. Bissette