Neal Adams kind — and that includes Will Eisner, Jack Kirby, and my own father, God rest his soul, none of these men had a nanosecond’s patience with self-pity.
Cartoon art is the craft of reuniting the word and the picture, using the drawing itself as communication more than as cold representation.
Comics drawn in slavish imitation of photography are almost as bad as those awful fumettis occasionally produced, despite all good sense, in Europe, those pasted-up things that are the worst and dumbest and most joyless corruption of the artform imaginable.
He [Will Eisner] sought for comics to be next to prose, where I always thought of comics as being another scrappy form, messing in popular culture.