Adam Hughes Quotes

I think all children draw, as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing.

– Adam Hughes

‘All-Star Wonder Woman’ would get worked on in what is laughably referred to as my ‘spare time.’ I just ended up with less and less time to devote to it. Eventually, we all realized that it was taking forever, so we just all agreed to hold off on it ’til the time was right to do it properly. Well, I still have a contract; DC never tore it up.

– Adam Hughes

I’ve been drawing as long as I can remember. I think all children draw as soon as they figure out the thumb and can grab crayons. The only difference with people like myself is that we never stopped drawing.

– Adam Hughes

I get less and less sketching done at shows, as more and more people want to come up and talk or get stuff signed. Most requested character? Probably Catwoman.

– Adam Hughes

That’s a comic cover’s job: Attract someone’s attention and persuade them to try the issue out.

– Adam Hughes

I’m still awaiting the idea of drawing comics for a living being a reality. I feel like I’ve been dodging work for 20 years, and at some point, I’ll have to get a real job.

– Adam Hughes

I’ve always loved pinup art, and I’ve always enjoyed drawing women. I think it was a conscious decision that has resulted in me getting almost exclusive work on comics where the main character is female.

– Adam Hughes

A great comic-book cover occurs when it gets a potential reader to pick the book up and start thumbing through it. That’s a comic cover’s job: Attract someone’s attention, and persuade them to try the issue out.

– Adam Hughes

Color always vexed me because I would fight with the media I was using. I love coloring in Photoshop, and it’s freed me to pursue ideas and techniques I wouldn’t have otherwise attempted. Since I get to take an assignment from concept to final execution, I have more freedom in my idea-making processes.

– Adam Hughes

I was born in Riverside and spent my whole growing-up years in Florence, a little township on the Delaware River. I tell people that I’m from the West Coast of New Jersey.

– Adam Hughes