Quotes On Comics

OK, I’m the Cowardly Cartoonist… As a Cowardly Cartoonist, I can’t make some glib comment like that, you know?

I love the old, cheap comic-book format so much because the format itself is a statement.

Now there is a spectrum, from the most weird, crazy, psycho pornographic stuff to pop mainstream superheroes and all that crap, there isn’t really an underground in the old sense.

The kind of music I like and cartoons are all part of an old time proletarian culture, [a] low cultural form.

A lot of people can only do this [comics] when they’re young, but once you have a family and a job, you get house payments… they have to buckle down and do commercial art.

Comics take a hell of a lot of focus but for most people there’s not a lot of reward in it.

I think cartooning, for the most part, is a young man’s game, or a young person’s game, because there are a lot of women doing it now.

Cartooning is a lonely job.

If I had any advice to give to somebody your age, I would say do something else for a while.