Quotes On Comics

Every professor I had discouraged me and said, “You’ll never make a living from that [comics]; nobody cares, nobody will think of you as an artist.” And now I realize, when I look back on them, that they were absolute failures.

You know what comic books are?

Go to Germany kids.

I don’t write these stories; my characters tell them to me.

Cartooning, like all other humor, comes from bad things happening.

Art comics has a tradition where not long ago its champions fell in love with the form when they had so little access to its history and lived in such artistically fallow times they had no choice but to believe in comics that hadn’t been made yet.

I had been producing comic books for 15-year-old cretins from Kansas, [now I want to aim for] a 55-year-old who had his wallet stolen on the subway.