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18 quotes by Joe Shuster

Joseph "Joe" Shuster (July 10, 1914 – July 30, 1992) was a Canadian-American comic book artist. He was best known for co-creating the DC Comics character Superman, with writer Jerry Siegel, first published in Action Comics No. 1 (June 1938). Shuster was involved in a number of legal battles concerning the ownership of the Superman character, eventually gaining recognition for his part in its creation. His comic book career after Superman was...
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In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial... →

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Jerry and I always felt that the character was enjoying himself. He was having fun: he wasn't taking himself seriously. It was always a lark for... →

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Clark Kent, I suppose, had a little bit of Harold Lloyd in him.

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Jerry reversed the usual formula of the superhero who goes to another planet. He put the superhero in ordinary, familiar surroundings, instead of the... →

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Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan... →

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Before I ever put anything on paper, Jerry and I would talk back and forth.

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Jerry often says that Slam Bradley was really the forerunner of Superman, because we turned it out with no restrictions, complete freedom to do what... →

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Those early sketches looked too cartoony; I really wanted to do detailed drawings - I was taking anatomy classes - but unfortunately I wasn't... →

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I was mild-mannered, wore glasses, was very shy with women.

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He was mostly leaping tall buildings in the beginning. There were cases where he would leap off a tall building or swoop down, and at that point he... →

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In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was before TV - and Superman... →

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I think initially we wanted to use the first letter of the character's name. We thought S was perfect.

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I did all the work at the beginning up until the point where I couldn't handle the increasingly heavy art production burden alone. I needed, and... →

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